Candia McWilliam

CMW is a Scottish writer who has lived for most of her adult life in London. She has published three novels, a volume of short stories, and a memoir. Her writing, family life, and success have suffered from severe alcoholism and from blepharospasm, a condition that rendered her functionally blind for a number of years before a successful experimental surgery alleviated her condition in 2009.
  • BirthName: Candia Frances Juliet McWilliam
    Molino, Michael R., editor. Twenty-First-Century British and Irish Novelists. Thomson Gale, 2003.
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  • Married: Wallop; Dinshaw
Portrait of Candia McWilliam. She is wearing a grey jacket and a white eyelet top and has a tartan pin at her lapel.

Milestones

1 July 1955

CMW was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She shares a birthday with Julius Caesar , for whom her third name is Juliet.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
McWilliam, Candia. What to Look for in Winter. Jonathan Cape, 2010.
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5 August 2010

In a volume about her life and experiences, What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir in Blindness, CMW wrote with remarkable frankness about her unusual childhood, her marriages, her alcoholism, and her blepharospasm.
Carpenter, Louise. “Candia McWilliam Interview: The Darkness Within”. The Telegraph Online, 5 Aug. 2010.

Biography

Birth and Family

1 July 1955

CMW was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She shares a birthday with Julius Caesar , for whom her third name is Juliet.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
McWilliam, Candia. What to Look for in Winter. Jonathan Cape, 2010.
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