About me
Sarah Perry is the internationally best selling author of the novels Melmouth, The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes the Flood, and Enlightenment, and the nonfiction Essex Girls.
Her essays have been widely published, and she has contributed to the Guardian, the New York Times, the Observer, and the London Review of Books.
Her second novel, the No. 1 bestseller The Essex Serpent, was adapted for television by Apple TV+, starring Claire Danes in the lead role.
Her first full-length work of nonfiction, Death of an Ordinary Man, was published in October 2025.
