Parris’s journey as an author and her books. She is also on the panel which decides the Orange New Writing Awards winner and also the Perrier Comedy Award. She has also been a judge for the Costa Biography Award for three years now. Here she did a Review program called the News Night Reviews.Īpart from the usual places, you can also find her at the Hay Festival as a presenter and at the National Theatre, where she holds a regular chair. She had a hiatus sort of career in various Radio Four shows and then she moved on to BBC. Her public interactions saw her as a panelist for a variety of different radio shows. It also drew a lot of praise for leading personalities and institutions. Her memoir, The Devil Within was shortlisted for the 2008 Mind Book Award.

In 2002, she won a Betty Trask award from the Society of Authors in 2002 for her novel Gaveston. Her astute skills got reflected on issues like contemporary arts and politics and she was well-heard by all age groups. She actively got engaged with the Talks and Debates Programme at London’s Soho Theatre. Her energy and strength showed itself in any direction she went. She was made the Deputy Literary Editor of The Observer in 1998. She graduated with flying colors and was given a chair that would test the best out of her. She studied English Literature at the Queens’ College, Cambridge and it was from back then that she started reviewing books for prominent newspapers. A moving piece of autobiography, it was well received and found its worth in critics and recognitions. In a melancholic style, she narrates the most difficult period in her life and takes the reader into the dark side of her personality. The Devil Within (published by Vermilion, 2008) was her first courageous leap into the world of non-fiction and was a critically acclaimed memoir. A natural story-teller, she explored the nitty-gritty of writing novels with her ambitious debut, Gaveston (published by Faber, 2002) and then followed up with Real (published by Faber, 2005).

She has also traveled many a mile into the world of novels and the author’s crown fits her aptly. Her role as a Deputy Literary Editor for The Observer starting from 1998 to until 2005 saw her evolution as an English critic and a model figure for the editorial pages.

Her real name is Stephanie Merritt, and she used the nickname, S. Parris is the heartthrob columnist of several leading publications, like The Times, the Daily Telegraph, New Humanist, the New Statesman, The Observer, The Guardian and Die Welt.

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