Background
Sheila MacLeod was born on March 23, 1939, in Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HD, United Kingdom
Somerville College
(The author combines a history of the disease, anorexia ne...)
The author combines a history of the disease, anorexia nervosa--first diagnosed three hundred years ago--and an account of her own battle against and hard-won victory over the disease
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Sheila MacLeod was born on March 23, 1939, in Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
MacLeod graduated from the Somerville College with honors as a Bachelor of Arts, in 1961.
MacLeod began her literary career in 1968 with The Moving Accident, a novel about the unhappy wife of a pop singer. MacLeod followed The Moving Accident with The Snow-White Soliloquies, an off-beat novel about a catatonic woman who is kept encased in glass. In Letters from the Portuguese, MacLeod’s next novel, a woman, Alice, edits letters written to her late husband by his late ex-wife, Emily. A Times Literary Supplement reviewer called Letters from the Portuguese “a purgative but inspiring triumph” and lauded MacLeod for sustaining “the intensity necessary to this domestic melodrama”.
In 1977 MacLeod published the science fiction novel Xanthe and the Robots. This futuristic tale concerns a scientist, Xanthe, studying and researching robotic humanities at a scientific institute. MacLeod next produced Circuit Breaker, a science fiction novel in which an astronaut attempts to develop sufficient extra-sensory powers to autokinetically return his spacecraft to its prescribed orbit. Axioms, MacLeod’s sixth novel, recalls The Moving Accident by relating the dour plight of a wife of a musician.
Aside from writing novels, MacLeod has produced several volumes of nonfiction. In the early 1980s she published The Art of Starvation, a partly autobiographical examination of anorexia. MacLeod combines journal entries from her teen years when she first suffered from anorexia with accounts of the disorder’s prevalence and its devastating, sometimes fatal, effect.
MacLeod is also the author of D. H. Lawrence's Men and Women (published in England as Lawrence's Men and Women) an appraisal of writer D. H. Lawrence’s handling of gender-specific issues and sexual relations in novels such as Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterly’s Lover.
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Quotes from others about the person
"Her engaged, unacademic, thoughtful manner provides the strength of the work." - Keith Cushman
MacLeod married Paul Jones in 1963, but they divorced later. MacLeod has a son.