Selina Shirley Hastings (born March 5, 1945) is a British journalist, author, and biographer. She is the daughter of Francis, 16th Earl of Huntingdon and author Margaret Lane. Hastings was educated at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. She has written books including Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (1985), Nancy Mitford (1986), The Singing Ringing Tree (1988), The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever (1988), The Firebird (1995), Evelyn Waugh (1995), Beibl Lliw Y Plant (1998), Rosamond Lehmann (2002) and The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham (2010). She is a past recipient of the Marsh Biography Award. Hastings was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1994. Among others, she and her sister, Lady Harriet Shackleton, are in remainder to several ancient English baronies, including those of Hastings and Botreaux. (from Wikipedia)