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Born and largely raised in New Zealand, Adrienne E. Gavin took degrees in English and Law at the University of Auckland before completing an MPhil in Criminology at the University of Cambridge and a PhD in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She currently lives in Canterbury, England where she is a Reader in English at Canterbury Christ Church University. Her academic research and teaching lies in the fields of Crime Fiction, Victorian Literature, Women Writers, and Children’s and Young Adult Literature.
She won the Biographers’ Club Prize in 2000 for her proposed biography Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell. A biography of the author of Black Beauty, the completed book was published by Sutton Publishing in 2004. She is currently seeking that elusive subject for her next biography and is engaged in writing fiction.
how I found the agency
I learned of the agency when I saw a call for entries to the Biographers' Club Prize which Andrew Lownie had founded. Having begun research towards a biography of Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, I entered a proposal for the 2000 prize which I was elated to win. When I went to receive the prize at a Biographers' Club lunch in London I met Andrew who offered to represent me. Subsequently the book was contracted to Sutton and published as Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell.
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