Philippa Gregory is an 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.

AudioFile magazine has called her "the queen of British historical fiction."

Dr. Philippa Gregory studied history at the University of Sussex and was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh, where she is a Regent and was made 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. She is a member of the Society of Authors and, in 2016, was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to Historical Fiction Award by the Historical Writers’ Association. In 2018, she received an Honorary Platinum Award by Neilsen for achieving significant lifetime sales across her entire book output. In 2021, she was awarded a CBE for services to literature and to her charity Gardens for the Gambia, and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.