Gillian Gill

Gillian Catherine Gill ("née" Scobie, born June 12, 1942) is a Welsh-American writer and academic who specializes in biography. She is the author of "Agatha Christie" (1990), "Mary Baker Eddy" (1998), "Nightingales: The Extraordinary Upbringing and Curious Life of Miss Florence Nightingale" (2004), and "We Two: Victoria and Albert, Rulers, Partners, Rivals" (2009).
Born in Cardiff, Wales, Gill attended Cardiff High School for Girls and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a first-class honours degree in French, Italian, and Latin. In March 1972 she obtained her Ph.D., also from Cambridge, for a thesis entitled "André Malraux: A Study of a Novelist". After marrying, she emigrated to the United States and taught at Northeastern University, Wellesley, Harvard, and Yale, where she was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and director of the Women's Studies Program.