Pauline Melville

Pauline Melville was born in 1948 in Guyana, to an English mother and a Guyanese father of mixed descent. A film and television actress in Europe, among others in Mona Lisa, she also performed on stage as a comedian, before becoming known as a writer with a collection of short stories, Shape-Shifter, in 1990, and then with novels. She lives in London and has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelThe Ventriloquist's TalePauline Melville · 1997Literature