Lesley Chamberlain

For rugby league footballer of the 1950s and '60s for Wakefield Trinity, Bramley, Hull Kingston Rovers, and Leeds, see Leslie Chamberlain.

Lesley Chamberlain (born 26 September 1951, Rochford, Essex) is a British journalist, travel writer and historian of Russian and German culture and has published short stories and novels and written about food.

Following her secondary education at Glanmôr Grammar School for Girls, she studied German and Russian at Exeter and Oxford Universities.

After becoming a Reuter's correspondent in 1978, she later became a full-time writer; her first book was published in 1982. She has written for The Independent, The Times Literary Supplement and Prospect magazine.

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