Sofka Zinovieff
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Sofka Zinovieff (born 1961) is a British author and journalist.
Zinovieff was born in London. Her parents were Peter Zinovieff and Victoria Gala Heber-Percy. Her paternal grandparents were White Russians who had left Soviet Russia for the United Kingdom shortly after the October Revolution. Zinovieff would later write a biography of her grandmother, Sofka Skipwith. Her maternal grandfather was the noted eccentric aristocrat Robert Heber-Percy, whose property, including the Faringdon House estate in Oxfordshire, she inherited at the age of 25; through him she is a descendant of Algernon Percy, 1st Earl of Beverley, of the family of the Dukes of Northumberland.[1][2]
She grew up in Putney in south-west London, where her father was founder of Britain's first synthesizer manufacturer, Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. She studied social anthropology at Cambridge University. Later she gained a PhD after living and carrying out research in the Peloponnese.[2]
Career
Zinovieff has worked as a journalist and book reviewer for various British publications. She has written several books, from memoirs and biographies to novels.
Works
- Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens (Granta, 2004). ISBN 1-86207-750-9 ISBN 978-1-86207-750-8
- Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life (Granta, 2007). ISBN 1-86207-919-6 ISBN 978-1-86207-919-9
- The House on Paradise Street (Short Books, 2012). ISBN 978-1-907595-69-1
- The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me (Jonathan Cape, 2014). ISBN 978-0-22409-659-1
- Putney (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) ISBN 9781408895757
- Stealing Dad (Corsair, 2025) ISBN 9781472159748
