Lucy Angela Hughes-Hallett (born 7 December 1951)[1] is a British cultural historian, biographer[2] and novelist. In November 2013, she won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction for her biography of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Pike.[3] The book also won the 2013 Costa Book Award (Biography)[4][5] and the Duff Cooper Prize.[6]