Ruth Scurr

Ruth Scurr is an Affiliated Lecturer and College Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is the author of "Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution," 2006. She has written for The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, The New Statesman, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal and is a member of the Folio Prize Academy..