Tanya Harrod is an independent design historian, living in London, who writes widely on craft, art, and design. Her major study, The crafts in Britain in the twentieth century, was published in 1999. The last sane man, her biography of the potter Michael Cardew, was published in 2012; for this book she was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for biography. She is co-editor of the The Journal of Modern Craft.