Lynsey Hanley

Lynsey Hanley (born 12 April 1976) is a British writer and academic.

Biography

Hanley was born in Birmingham and grew up on a council estate in the suburb of Chelmsley Wood. She studied English at Queen Mary University of London.

Hanley is a visiting fellow in cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Estates: an Intimate History and Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide, and is also a regular contributor to The Guardian. A frequent theme of Hanley's work is social mobility, often based on her own journey from a working-class background to attending university and becoming a writer.

As of 2023 she lives in Liverpool.

Bibliography

• Estates: an Intimate History (2007)
• Respectable: Crossing the Class Divide (2016)