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Dr Ruth Scurr (born 1971, London) is a British writer, historian and literary critic. She is a Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.〔https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/ruth-scurr〕 She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000. Her first book, ''Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution'' (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006) won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009. 〔http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3738.The_Times_Online_100_Best_Books_of_the_Decade_2000_2009_,〕 It has been translated into five languages. Scurr began reviewing regularly for ''The Times'' and ''The Times Literary Supplement'' in 1997.〔http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/tlssearch.do?querystring=Ruth+Scurr§ionId=1797&p=tls〕 Since then she has also written for ''The Daily Telegraph'',〔http://journalisted.com/ruth-scurr?allarticles=yes〕 ''The Observer'', ''New Statesman'',〔http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/ruth_scurr〕 ''The London Review of Books'',〔http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/ruth-scurr〕 ''The New York Review of Books'', ''The Nation'',〔http://www.thenation.com/authors/ruth-scurr〕 ''The New York Observer'', ''The Guardian'' 〔http://www.theguardian.com/profile/ruth-scurr〕 and ''The Wall Street Journal''.〔http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304275304579397013452253126〕 She was a judge on the Man Booker Prize panel in 2007, and the Samuel Johnson Prize panel in 2014.〔http://www.themanbookerprize.com/people/ruth-scurr〕〔http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk〕 She is a member of the Folio Prize Academy.〔http://www.thefolioprize.com/the-academy/〕 Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where she has been a Fellow since 2006. Her research interests include: 17th and 18th century history of ideas; biographical, autobiographical and life writing; the British and French Enlightenments; the French Revolution; Revolutionary Memoir; early Feminist Political Thought; and contemporary fiction in English. She was married to the political theorist John Dunn between 1997 and 2013. She has two daughters and a stepson. == Bibliography == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Scurr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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