Lisa Simone Kingstone

Nonfiction Writer, Montclair, New Jersey, US

Lisa Simone Kingstone is a former literature professor at King’s College London, and has recently completed a book of essays Exit, Stage Left: Lessons in the Art of Dying. Her previous book Fading Out Black and White (2018) was featured on BBC Radio 4.

Written by Lisa Simone Kingstone

Engraving of an elderly man sitting with a woman standing behind him, three figures raising arms in foreground, cityscape in background.

The hard art of comfort

Sick in a London hospital, I understood the Book of Job and his rage at all the miserable comforters

by Lisa Simone Kingstone