PhD Lucy Pollard-Gott

Lucy Pollard-Gott holds a PhD in psychology from Princeton University, where she specialized in the psychology of the arts. As a psychologist and critic, she has published her research on literature, including journal articles on the structure of fairy tales, attribution theory and the novel, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. She lives with her husband, astrophysicist and author J. Richard Gott, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Since publishing THE FICTIONAL 100, she has enjoyed continuing to follow the fascinating, ongoing careers of her 100 most influential characters, reporting news of new books, films, and other sightings of their exploits, on Twitter, Facebook, and her blog, fictional100.wordpress.com, where some of her best friends are still fictional...