Alison Spedding

Alison Louise Spedding (born 22 January 1962) is a British anthropologist and fantasy author, latterly also known as Alison Spedding Pallet.

Education and writing Alison Spedding is the daughter of Ken Spedding and Maureen Reybould. She was brought up in Maidenhead and Reading. She studied archaeology and anthropology and later philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, receiving her BA degree in 1982. She received a PhD from the London School of Economics in 1989. and the sentence, which had never reach final status, was quashed by Bolivia's Constitutional Court after she had served 26 months.