was the Humanitas Visiting Professor of Women's Rights at Cambridge University. Walter is also the author of a novel, A Quiet Life, which is based loosely on the life of Melinda Marling, the wife of Cambridge spy Donald Maclean. Walter's memoir, Before the Light Fades: a memoir of grief and resistance, will be published by Virago in 2023. It tells the story of her mother's death by suicide, and the legacy of the political activism of her mother in the 1960s and that of her grandfather in the 1930s. In October 2019, Walter was arrested for blocking a road in Extinction Rebellion's 'October Rebellion' in London's Trafalgar Square. She tweeted: "I was one of 100s arrested yesterday for drawing attention to the destruction of our beautiful planet." She has continued to be active with Extinction Rebellion and Writers Rebel, a group of writers involved with the climate movement. Walter lives in London with her partner and their two children. Works The New Feminism (1998). On the Move: feminism for a new generation (1999). Living Dolls (2009). A Quiet Life (2016) Recognition She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2013. References External links Women for Refugee Women 2002/01/interview_with_natasha_walter An interview with Walter on the website The F-Word A feature by Walter in The Guardian on the situation facing Saudi women AuthKey=6ba2fcf21ac8a0b0e4ddf01c86ed4e90&issue=503 A feature from Prospect magazine on biology and the backlash 1967 births Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge British feminist writers Harvard University alumni People educated at North London Collegiate School Living people British feminists BBC 100 Women 21st-century British novelists 21st-century British women writers