Anna Wharton
Non-fiction writer, Novelist, Memoirist
About
Anna Wharton is an Orwell prize-nominated nonfiction writer, memoirist and novelist. She worked as a journalist and senior editor for three decades, and her work has appeared in titles including the Observer, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times and the Sunday Times Magazine.
Anna spent a decade as a Sunday Times bestselling ghost-writer. She is perhaps best known for co-authoring three books with Wendy Mitchell: Somebody I Used to Know, What I Wish People Knew About Dementia, and One Last Thing: How to Live with the End in Mind (all Bloomsbury). These books were translated into more than a dozen languages and received critical and worldwide acclaim.
Anna’s work with Hibo Wardere on CUT: One Woman’s Fight Against FGM in Britain Today (Simon and Schuster) earnt her an Orwell prize longlisting. She has also ghostwritten/co-authored many other books for major publishers including Brave by Adele Bellis (Harper Collins), Those Who Can, Teach by Andria Zafirakou (Bloomsbury) and Off the Beat by Nusrit Mehtab (Transworld/PRH).
Her novel, The Imposter, was published by Mantle (Pan Macmillan) in 2021, and her memoir publishing with Hutchinson Heinemann traces her grandmother’s incarceration in a British asylum and the history of female psychiatric care via the stories of mid-century novelists.
She is a mentor and advocate for female voices and feminist storytelling, amplified by her Substack, White Ink with Anna Wharton, which is a worldwide bestseller in the fiction category. Her TedX Talk on The Power of Storytelling has received thousands of views.