Norwegian historian and writer Bodil Stenseth has a prolific authorship focusing on Norwegian and Western cultural history. For many years she was a regular columnist for the newspaper Klassekampen. Her most recent book, Antikvitetshandler Watchman: familien som ble borte (The Antique Dealer Watchman: The Family That Disappeared), is about the Jewish antiques dealer P. S. Watchman from Oslo and his family, who were killed in the Holocaust. She lives in Oslo.