Laura Mary Catherine Beatty (née Keen; born 1 May 1963) is a writer awarded the Authors' Club First Novel Award for her 2008 novel Pollard, also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize.
She has also written two biographies, the first about Lillie Langtry which contained the first publication of correspondence between Lillie and her lover Arthur Jones.
Personal life
She is the daughter of Charles Keen and Lady Priscilla Mary Rose Curzon, eldest daughter of Edward Curzon, 6th Earl Howe. Her brother is actor
Will Keen (father of actress
Dafne Keen) and her sister is poet
Alice Oswald.
[Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 2, Burke's Peerage, Ltd, 2003, p. 1987][Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 148th edition, Debrett's Peerage Ltd, 2011, p. 799] On 29 September 1990, she married the Hon. Nicholas Beatty, son of David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty. They have one son, David Brin Charles Beatty (born 1992).
[Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage 106th edition, vol. 1, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1999, p. 220]
Bibliography
Non-fiction
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Lillie Langtry, Manner, Masks and Morals (1999, Chatto & Windus)
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Anne Boleyn, The Wife Who Lost Her Head (2001, Short Books,
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Looking for Theophrastus: travels in search of a lost philosopher (2022, Atlantic Books)
Fiction
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Pollard (2008, Chatto & Windus)
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Darkling (2014, Chatto & Windus)
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Lost Property (2019, Atlantic Books)
