Rebecca Stott

Rebecca Stott (born 1964) is a British writer and broadcaster and, until her retirement from teaching in 2021, was Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021. She is the author of fifteen books which include three novels, a biography of Charles Darwin and a 2,200-year history of Darwin's predecessors. Her second most recent book In the Days of Rain (2017), a memoir giving an account of her chi…