Lynsey Hanley

Lynsey Hanley (born 12 April 1976) is a British writer and academic.

Lynsey Hanley
Born (1976-04-12) 12 April 1976
Birmingham, West Midlands, England
EducationQueen Mary University of London (BA)
Occupations
  • Columnist
  • author

Biography

Hanley was born in Birmingham and grew up on a council estate in the suburb of Chelmsley Wood.[1] She studied English at Queen Mary University of London.[2]

Hanley is a visiting fellow in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Estates: an Intimate History and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and is also a regular contributor to The Guardian. A frequent theme of Hanley's work is social mobility, often based on her own journey from a working-class background to attending university and becoming a writer.[3]

As of 2023 she lives in Liverpool.[4]

Bibliography
  • Estates: an Intimate History (2007)
  • Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide (2016)

References
  1. Hanley, Lynsey (2017). Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide. Penguin. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-141-04061-5.
  2. Hanley 2017, p. 130.
  3. Lewis, Tim (17 April 2016). "Lynsey Hanley interview: 'The idea that you could write books was just crackers'". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
  4. Hanley, Lynsey (31 December 2022). "Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes … because I live just around the corner". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
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