Emily Wilson

About

An English professor and classicist, she is best known as a literary reviewer for The London Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Her scholarly works include Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton and The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint.

Before Fame

She studied philosophy and classical literature at Balliol College, Oxford. Later, she received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University.

Trivia

She won the prestigious Rome Prize in 2006. She has accumulated over 30,000 followers on her emily Instagram page. 

Family Life

She was born in England to A. N. Wilson and Katherine Duncan-Jones. Her sister, Bee Wilson, became a famous food writer.

Associated With

She and Ernest Gann both studied at Yale University.