Lisa Appignanesi is a british writer, novelist, and campaigner for free expression. She is a former President of English PEN and Chair of the Trustees of the Freud Museum in London. She studied at McGill University in Montreal, where she was a features editor for The McGill Daily. In 1967, she earned her BA and MA degrees (with a thesis on Edgar Allan Poe) and married writer Richard Appignanesi. After their marriage the couple moved to England, where she obtained a DPhil degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Sussex in 1970. During this period she spent some time in Paris and Vienna, and wrote a book called Proust, Musil and Henry James: femininity and the creative imagination which was published in 1974. She has also written the award-winning Mad, Bad and Sad and All About Love (2011).
