Hannah Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild is a writer, filmmaker, philanthropist, and company director. Her biography, The Baroness, was published in 2012 and her first novel, The Improbability of Love (2015), won the Dillinger PG Wodehouse award for best comic novel and was runner-up to the Bailey’s Prize for fiction. The House of Trelawney was published in 2020. Hannah also writes for magazines and newspapers, including the Times, the New York Times, Vogue, Bazaar, and Vanity Fair. Her award-winning documentary features on the arts, politics, and public figures have been broadcast on major networks, including the BBC, HBO, PBS, and also at film festivals such as London, Tribeca, Tellurium, New York, and Sheffield. She serves on philanthropic trusts in the UK and abroad, including chairing her family’s Israel-based foundation Yad Hanadiv, whose current projects include building the new national library in Jerusalem. In 2018, she was made a CBE for services to literature and philanthropy.