Kassia St Clair received a first in History from Bristol University and went on to study English women's dress and the masquerade during the eighteenth century at Oxford, where she received a distinction. She has since written about culture and design for publications including The Economist, Quartz, 1843, New Statesman and the Evening Standard, and has been a columnist for Elle Decoration since 2013. She lives in London.

Kassia's first book The Secret Lives of Colour was published by John Murray in the UK where it was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, published by Penguin in the US, and has been sold in nine languages. Her second book, The Golden Thread, will be published in 2018. 

www.kassiastclair.com
Twitter - @kassiastclair
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Represented by: Imogen Pelham

Photograph credit: Colin Thomas

Titles
The Golden Thread (John Murray, 2018)
The Secret Lives of Colour​ (John Murray, 2016)