Lucasta Miller is a literary journalist and historian who was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (double first), and has worked as a reviewer for the Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent, where she was Deputy Literary Editor. 

She is the author of THE BRONTË MYTH (Knpof, 2004), the story of how the Brontës' lives and their writings got distorted and intertwined into some of the most potent romantic myths of women's literature of the last 150 years. 

She is currently at work on BYRON’S WOMEN (Knopf, 2009).