Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster.  Her latest novel is The Memory Man. Her other fiction includes Paris Requiem,  Sanctuary, The Dead of Winter, The Things We Do For Love, A Good Woman, Dreams of Innocence and Memory and Desire. Her non-fiction includes the much praised family memoir, Losing the Dead, a portrait of Simone de Beauvoir, a cultural history of cabaret, and a study of Henry James, Proust and Musil as well as Freud's Women (with John Forrester).  She has been Executive Producer on a number of TV programmes, including Seductions, England's Henry Moore and a film on Salman Rushdie. Lisa has also been Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, where she initiated the Writers in Conversation series. She writes reviews and has presented programmes for BBC Radio including The Case of Sigmund Freud and Night Waves. Lisa is Vice-President of English PEN, sits on the Council of the ICA and has served on the Management Committee of the Society of Authors, as well as being a patron of Writers in Exile. She is currently working on a book on women and the mind doctors.