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Diana Souhami is an English biographer and non-fiction author. She was brought up in London and studied philosophy at Hull University. She worked in the publications department of the BBC before turning to biography. While working as an editor at BBC publications she published some short stories and wrote plays which were performed at Edinburgh Festival, The Kings Head in Islington and broadcast as radio plays by the BBC. She devised an exhibition: A Woman's Place: The Changing Picture of Women in Britain for the British Council which toured 30 countries. Her book based on this exhibition was published by Penguin Books. She also reviewed books and plays for newspapers. In 1986 she was approached by Pandora Press and received a commission to write a biography of Hannah Gluckstein.
She is the author of twelve books, many of which are about lesbian artists and writers; she has also written two books about small islands.
Her biography of the author Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall, was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize and she won the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island.
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