Writer
Stephanie Merritt is a writer and novelist. She was deputy literary editor of The Observer from 1998-2005 and, as S.J.Parris, writes a bestselling series featuring the 16th-century heretic philosopher and spy, Giordano Bruno.
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Thinkers and theories
Bruno the brave
For anyone who dares to voice dangerous ideas and risk imprisonment or exile, Giordano Bruno remains a hero
Stephanie Merritt