Mark Bostridge won the Gladstone Memorial Prize at Oxford University. His first bookVera Brittain: A Life was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize, the NCR NonFiction Award, and the Fawcett Prize. His books also include the bestsellingLetters from a Lost Generation; Lives for Sale, a collection of biographers' tales;Because You Died, a selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry and prose; andFlorence Nightingale: The Woman and her Legend, which was named as a Wall Street JournalBest Book of 2008 and awarded the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. He is currently consultant on the forthcoming feature film ofVera Brittain's Testament of Youth.
