Harriet Crawley (born 1948) is a British author, journalist, television presenter and art dealer.
She is daughter of British politician Aidan Crawley and American war correspondent Virginia Cowles. In 1987 she had a son, Spencer Henry Crawley. Later she married Gleb Shestakov in 1993 and then Julian Ayer around 2001.
Crawley unsuccessfully fought the Brent East Constituency in the 1987 general election running as a Tory, she lost to Labour veteran Ken Livingstone.
Crawley is a fluent speaker of Russian, French, German and Italian, as well as English.
Selected works
Degree of Defiance 1969
The Goddaughter (1975)
The Lovers and the Loved (1990)
The Painted Lady (1994)
The Translator (2023)