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She was raised in Paris, France and in Montreal, Canada. She graduated from McGill University with a B.A. degree in 1966 and her M.A. the following year. During 1970-71 she was a staff writer for the Centre for Community Research in New York City and is a former University of Essex lecturer in European Studies. She was a founding member and editorial director of the Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative. Through the eighties she was a Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK, for whom she also edited the seminal Documents Series and established ICA television and the video Writers in Conversation series.

Appignanesi produced several made for television films and had written a number of books before devoting herself to writing fulltime in 1990. Novels followed - Memory and Desire, Dreams of Innocence, A Good Woman, Paris Requiem, Unholy Loves, and in 2004 The Memory Man. These were interspersed with a classic study of Freud's Women, with John Forrester, and a number of other non-fictions. Her edited books include The Rushdie File and the PEN Penguin Book, Free Expression is No Offence.

In 2000, she was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for the best Canadian work of literary non-fiction for Losing the Dead: A Family Memoir. The Memory Man was short-listed for the Commonwealth Prize and won the Canadian Holocaust Fiction Award. In recognition of her contribution to literature, Lisa Appignanesi has been honoured with a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government. In 2004, she became Deputy President of English PEN and has run its highly successful 'Free Expression is No Offence Campaign' against the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. In 2008 she became President of English PEN.

She writes for The Guardian, The Independent and has made several series for BBC Radio 4, as well as frequently appearing as a cultural commentator.

Lisa Appignanesi has two children, the film-maker Josh Appignanesi, whose first feature is Song of Songs, and Katrina Forrester, campaigner with the group Plane Stupid. She lives in London.
]]> female Łódź 1946/01/04 68641 1552782980 9781552782989 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170697048m/68641.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170697048s/68641.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68641.Paris_Requiem 3.29 24 38673 3.47 118 27 2004 2225821 0393066630 9780393066630 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2225821.Mad_Bad_and_Sad_Women_and_the_Mind_Doctors 3.55 20 A brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history of the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800.

This is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, from the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Mary Lamb, sister of Charles, who in the throes of a nervous breakdown turned on her mother with a kitchen knife, to Freud, Jung, and Lacan, who developed the new women-centered therapies, Lisa Appignanesi's research traces how more and more of the inner lives and emotions of women have become a matter for medics and therapists. Here too is the story of how over the years symptoms and diagnoses have developed together to create fashions in illness and how treatments have succeeded or sometimes failed. Mad, Bad, and Sad takes us on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. 5 illustrations.]]> 38673 3.47 118 27 2007 323284 1552781879 9781552781876 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751444m/323284.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751444s/323284.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323284.Sanctuary 2.57 7 38673 3.47 118 27 2000 323281 1552781224 9781552781227 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751442m/323281.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751442s/323281.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323281.The_Dead_of_Winter 2.83 6 38673 3.47 118 27 1999 2968145 0451175530 9780451175533 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2968145.Memory_and_Desire 4.00 4 38673 3.47 118 27 1992 323283 1900850893 9781900850896 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751444m/323283.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751444s/323283.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323283.The_Memory_Man 4.00 4 </div>]]> 38673 3.47 118 27 2004 315646 9780141024738 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190662838m/315646.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190662838s/315646.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315646.Free_Expression_Is_No_Offence 4.67 3 38673 3.47 118 27 2005 323280 1552785017 9781552785010 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751442m/323280.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173751442s/323280.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/323280.Unholy_Loves 3.25 4 38673 3.47 118 27 2006 254046 0300105800 9780300105803 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173166520m/254046.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173166520s/254046.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254046.The_Cabaret 4.00 3 This much revised and updated edition of Appignanesi’s classic work is enriched with materials that have become more accessible in the post-Soviet era. It also features a variety of new illustrations from both East and West. The book provides a lively look at all aspects of cabaret, where art and entertainment join to mock and provoke, and where radical artistic, literary, and political ideas have found expression for more than 120 years.
</div>]]> 38673 3.47 118 27 1975 2769781 0099273470 9780099273479 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2769781.Losing_the_Dead 4.00 2 Appignanesi's parents Hena and Aron, together with her older brother and maternal grandmother, had escaped certain death in the Warsaw ghetto by tenacity, audacity (especially on the part of her mother)- -and the ultimate suppression of their Jewish identity. To this end they were helped out enormously by the heroism and sacrifices of individuals and in particular by Hena's mysterious, fabled brother Arek, who disappeared from view in 1943. Losing the Dead swings effortlessly between Appignanesi's comedic childhood reminiscences, her tireless search through Polish archives and registers for forgotten identities and the dramatic, immediate narrative of her family's day-to-day existence in the terrifying war years. It is a story of loss and deprivation, yet ultimately one of profound understanding, as Appignanesi resurrects her past in order to lay it to rest, proving that Losing the Dead is a truly commemorative memoir.--Catherine Taylor

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