# Charlotte Mendelson > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charlotte_Mendelson > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charlotte_Mendelson.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mendelson > Source revision: 1341895365 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English novelist and editor, born 1972}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Charlotte Jane Mendelson''' (born 1 November 1972) is an English novelist and editor. She was placed 60th on the ''[Independent on Sunday](/source/Independent_on_Sunday)'' "Pink List 2007".{{Cite web |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2516664.ece |title=The pink list 2007: The ''IoS'' annual celebration of the great and the gay - This Britain, UK - the Independent |access-date=2010-04-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704211658/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2516664.ece |archivedate=2008-07-04}} ==Biography== Charlotte Mendelson was born on 1 November 1972 in [London](/source/London), England, the daughter of a barrister, Maurice Harvey Mendelson.{{Cite web |title=Mendelson, Charlotte Jane, (born 1 Nov. 1972), novelist, since 2001 |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-284489 |access-date=2021-11-01 |website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO |year=2016 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U284489 |isbn=978-0-19-954088-4}} Mendelson's family moved to [Oxford](/source/Oxford) when she was two, where her father taught at [St John's College, Oxford](/source/St_John's_College%2C_Oxford). She attended [Oxford High School](/source/Oxford_High_School%2C_England) and [New College, Oxford](/source/New_College%2C_Oxford), where she received a BA degree in Ancient and Modern History. She was an editor at [Jonathan Cape](/source/Jonathan_Cape) in 1996–1997 and at [Headline Review](/source/Headline_Review) in 1998–2014. Mendelson has been a visiting professor of creative writing at [Royal Holloway, University of London](/source/Royal_Holloway%2C_University_of_London), since 2017 and a gardening correspondent at the ''[New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'' since the same year. She became a [Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature](/source/Royal_Society_of_Literature) in 2018. ==Bibliography== *''Love in Idleness'' (2001) *''Daughters of Jerusalem'' (2003) *''[When We Were Bad](/source/When_We_Were_Bad)'' (2007) *''Almost English'' (2013) *''Rhapsody In Green'' (2016) *''[The Exhibitionist](/source/The_Exhibitionist)'' (2022) *''Wife'' (2024) ==Awards and nominations== *[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize](/source/John_Llewellyn_Rhys_Prize) *[Somerset Maugham Award](/source/Somerset_Maugham_Award) *[Sunday Times](/source/Sunday_Times) '''Young Writer of the Year'' (shortlisted) *[London Arts](/source/London_Arts) New London Writers’ Award *K. Blundell Trust Award *Le Prince Maurice Roman d’Amour Prize (shortlisted) *[Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize](/source/Geoffrey_Faber_Memorial_Prize) (shortlisted) *[Man Booker Prize](/source/Man_Booker_Prize) 2013 (longlisted) *[Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction](/source/Baileys_Women's_Prize_for_Fiction) 2014 (longlisted) *[Women's Prize for Fiction](/source/Women's_Prize_for_Fiction) 2022 (longlisted for ''The Exhibitionist''){{Cite web |date=2022-03-08 |title=Announcing the Women's Prize 2022 longlist! |url=https://womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/features/features/news/announcing-the-womens-prize-2022-longlist |access-date=2022-03-08 |website=Women's Prize for Fiction}} ==Personal life== Mendelson lives in London. She has one son and one daughter.{{Cite news |last=Edemariam |first=Aida |author-link=Aida Edemariam|date=8 May 2007 |title='I wasn't posh and I wasn't confident, and I was really hideous' |work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/08/fiction.shopping |access-date=1 November 2021}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.charlottemendelson.com/ Charlotte Mendelson Official Website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020627/http://www.panmacmillan.com/authors%20illustrators/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Contributor&ContributorID=70327 Charlotte Mendelson at Picador] *[http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/2306_charlotte_mendelson_.htm Somethingjewish.co.uk interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222175636/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/2306_charlotte_mendelson_.htm |date=22 December 2013 }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mendelson, Charlotte}} Category:1972 births Category:21st-century English novelists Category:Living people Category:Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Category:Jewish English writers Category:John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winners Category:English lesbian writers Category:Lesbian Jews Category:LGBTQ people from London Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford Category:Alumni of New College, Oxford Category:Novelists from London Category:People educated at Oxford High School, England Category:Writers from Oxford Category:English LGBTQ novelists Category:21st-century English LGBTQ people Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:21st-century English women novelists {{UK-novelist-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Charlotte Mendelson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mendelson) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Mendelson?action=history)). 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