Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett is a British cultural historian and biographer. Born in London, Hughes-Hallett is the daughter of Michael Wyndham Norton Hughes-Hallett by his marriage to Penelope Ann Fairbairn. Her father was a Lieutenant in the Scots Guards. In 1984, she married Dan Franklin and they have two daughters. Hughes-Hallett has written book reviews regularly for The Sunday Times. In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike. The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award. She is one of the judges of the Duff Cooper Prize and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. 

December 7th, 1951 in (Age 72)