Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999) was a distinguished Scottish author whose ground-breaking feminist books of historical fiction, fantasy and sci-fi are as radical, free thinking and bohemian as any author writing today. At the time, her feminist and radical voice went on to inspire such writers as Ursula Le Guin. She also led a fascinating life as a passionate campaigner for a range of social and political issues, including supporting socialists in 1934's Nazi-threatened Vienna, running a women's sexual health centre, protesting at Greenham Common in her 80s, and being adopted as adviser and mother of the Bakgatla tribe in Botswana. She died in 1999 at the age of 101, with over seventy books to her name.