Books by Shusha Guppy

Shusha Guppy was born and brought up in Iran. She moved to Paris when she was 17 to study at the Sorbonne and moved to London in the early 1960s. Formerly London Editor of The Paris Review, she wrote for publications on both sides of the Atlantic and as a broadcaster she contributed to a variety of cultural programmes for the BBC. Shusha was the author of two prize-winning and much-loved memoirs, The Blindfold Horse and A Girl in Paris, as well as the acclaimed The Secret of Laughter: Magical Tales from Classical Persia. She died in 2008.