Frances Larson

Frances Larson is an honorary research fellow in anthropology at Durham University. She is the author of a biography of Henry Wellcome, "An Infinity of Things," published to considerable critical acclaim and subsequently shortlisted for the MJA Awards and chosen as a Sunday Times Book of the Year as well as a New Scientist Best Book of 2009. She is also the co-author of "Knowing Things," a book on the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Larson lives in Durham, England.