Marsha Hunt

Marsha Hunt was born in 1946 and grew up in Philadelphia. She studied at the University of California in Berkeley during the student riots of the 1960s but soon left for Europe. In London she made her name in the musical ‘Hair’. She has been an actress, singer and, more recently, an acclaimed writer. ‘Joy’, her first novel, ‘Real Life’, her autobiography, and ‘Repossessing Ernestine’, a memoir of her grandmother are also published by Flamingo. She has one daughter and now lives with her partner in Co. Wicklow, Ireland.