Salley Vickers
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Salley Vickers (born 1948 in Liverpool) is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. She also writes poetry.
Her mother was a social worker and her father a trades union leader, both members of the British communist party until 1956 and then very committed socialists. She was brought up in Stoke-on-Trent and London, and read English Literature at Cambridge University. Following this, she taught children with special needs and then English literature at Stanford, Oxford and the Open University and was a WEA and further education tutor for adult education classes.
She then trained as an Jungian analytical psychotherapist, working in the NHS and also specialised in helping people who were creatively blocked. She gave up her psychoanalytic work in 2002, although she still lectures on the connections between literature and psychology. She now writes full time and lives in London.
Her father was a committed supporter of Irish republicanism and her first name, 'Salley', is spelled with an 'e' because it is the Irish for 'willow' (from the Latin: salix, salicis) as in the W B Yeats poem, "Down by the salley gardens" a favourite of her parents.
She has two sons from her first marriage. In 2002, her second marriage, to the Irish writer and broadcaster Frank Delaney, was dissolved.
In 2002, she was a judge for the Booker Prize for Fiction.[1]
[edit] Novels
- Miss Garnet’s Angel (first published 2000)[2]
- Instances of the Number 3 (2001)[3]
- Mr Golightly’s Holiday (2003)[4]
- The Other Side of You (2006)[5]
- Where Three Roads Meet (2007) (part of the Canongate Myth Series)[6]
- Dancing Backwards (2009)[7]
- Aphrodite's Hat, The Collected Stories of Salley Vickers (November 2010)[8]
Forthcoming:-
- Sweet and Comfortable Words
[edit] References
- ^ Booker Prize winners and judges
- ^ "Miss Garnet's Angel - Salley Vickers". www.dooyoo.co.uk. http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/printed-books/miss-garnets-angel-salley-vickers/252224/. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ "Instances of the Number 3: A Novel by Salley Vickers". www.goodreads.com. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/566873.Instances_of_the_Number_3. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Martinovich, Steven (26 January 2004). "Mr. Golightly's Holiday By Sally Vickers". Enter Stage Right. http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0104/0104golightly.htm. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Seymenliyska, Elena (22 April 2006). "The Other Side of You by Salley Vickers,". Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/apr/22/featuresreviews.guardianreview28. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Holtsberry, Kevin (15 January 2009). "Where Three Roads Meet by Sally Vickers". collectedmiscellany.com. http://collectedmiscellany.com/2009/01/where-three-roads-meet-by-sally-vickers/. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Thompson, Heather (2 August 2009). "Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers: review". London: Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5940378/Dancing-Backwards-by-Salley-Vickers-review.html. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Arditti, Michael (19 November 2010). "Aphrodite's Hat by Salley Vickers: review". London: Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8126254/Aphrodites-Hat-by-Salley-Vickers-review.html. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
