Sybille Bedford

SB was a largely twentieth-century writer who worked on the boundaries between fiction and fact. Her three initial novels (which create fictional characters partly from people in Bedford's own family or circle, and which evoke with particular historical vividness the political atmosphere of the times, recent but not contemporary, in which they are set) culminate in a memoir-novel which is one step closer to autobiography, and a twenty-first century memoir which separates autobiography from fiction. SB has also written biography, accounts of travel, and reports of celebrated trials, as well as reviews and articles on food, wine, and books.