![]() Her most recent book, Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire, was published by Portobello Books in 2012, to much acclaim. Described by Kirkus Reviews as "unfailingly interesting", and by the Washington Post as "a comprehensive and truly empathetic biography", it won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004 and has been translated into several languages. In 2003 Stuart's second book, The Rose of Martinique: A Biography of Napoleon's Josephine, was published. It was adapted into a two-part documentary for the Discovery Channel in 1998, and since then has inspired a stage show, a dance piece and a number of burlesque performances. Stuart's first book was Showgirls (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), a collective biography of showgirls through history to the present day, from Colette, to Marlene Dietrich, to Josephine Baker, to Madonna. ![]() She began working as a journalist, then branched into publishing and television documentary production. She studied English at the University of East Anglia and French at the Sorbonne. She moved to England with her family when she was 14, in 1976. Born in Jamaica, of Barbadian parents, Andrea Stuart spent many of her early years there, where her father was Dean of the medical school at the University College of the West Indies. ![]()
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