Winifred Gérin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Winifred Gérin

British writer

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1901

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Jun-1981

Profession: writer, biographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Winifred Eveleen Gérin , née Bourne, (7 October 1901 – 28 June 1981) was an English biographer born in Hamburg.
She is best known as a biographer of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell, whose lives she researched extensively.
Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius (1967) is regarded as her seminal work and received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize and the Royal Society of Literature Heinemann prize.