Philippa Gregory is a renowned English historical novelist who has been publishing since 1987. She is best known for her work The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association in 2002 and has been adapted into two films.

Gregory is often referred to as "the queen of British historical fiction" by AudioFile magazine.

She studied history at the University of Sussex and was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh, where she serves as a Regent and was named Alumna of the Year in 2009. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff. In 2016, Gregory received the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award from the Historical Writers’ Association. In 2018, she was awarded an Honorary Platinum Award by Neilsen for significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. In 2021, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature and her charity, Gardens for the Gambia, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.