SHAUN USHER
Professional nerd. Est. 1978.
CREATOR of
Diaries of Note
Published on 9th October 2025, Diaries of Note gathers 366 diary entries—one for each day of the leap year—written by people from all walks of life. From Virginia Woolf to Alan Rickman, Frederick Douglass to Emma Thompson, and countless voices never touched by fame, the book reveals humanity in its rawest form.
AUTHOR of
Letters of Note
Since its birth in 2009, the Letters of Note website has been visited over 100 million times. In 2013, the first Letters of Note book was published to wide acclaim and became a bestseller. As of 2021, there are fourteen volumes in the Letters of Note series.
PRODUCER at
Letters Live
Hailed in The Observer as “the best letters in the world read by the best voices,” Letters Live had its premiere at The Tabernacle in west London in December 2013. Since then it has been staged over sixty times, including performances in New York, Venice, Brixton Prison, Los Angeles, Edinburgh, Hay Festival, Wilderness Festival and in the Calais Jungle.
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