Joan Smith is a novelist, columnist and human rights activist. She is known for her lively and controversial columns in the Independent, Independent on Sunday, Tribune and the Evening Standard. Joan contributes to the Times and Sunday Times, and appears on such BBC current affairs programmes as Today, Woman's Hour and The World Tonight. She has campaigned for persecuted writers around the world, chairing the English PEN Writers in Prison Committee for four years, and advised the Foreign Office on freedom of expression. Her books include Misogynies, Moralities and five crime novels. Her latest book is What Will Survive. She is an ardent secularist, a member of the Labour Party and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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