About Time
The idea that men are funnier than women is a joke that’s gone on far too long. Here’s to the women, from Jane Austen to Moms Mabley, who broke down the door.
Gill Paul is the author, most recently, of The Manhattan Girls: Dorothy Parker and Her Friends. She has written eleven historical novels, many of them re-evaluating real 20th-century women and trying to get inside their heads. Her books have reached the top of the USA Today, Toronto Globe & Mail, and UK Kindle charts, and have been translated into twenty-two languages.
Gill was born and raised in Scotland, apart from an eventful year at school in the U.S. when she was ten. She worked as an editor in non-fiction publishing then as a ghostwriter for celebrities, before giving up the “day job” to write fiction full-time. She also writes short stories for magazines and speaks at literary festivals about subjects ranging from the British royal family to the Romanovs.
Gill swims year-round in an open-air pond—“It’s good for you so long as it doesn’t kill you”—and loves traveling whenever and wherever she can.