Sarah Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist. She is known for novels set in the Victorian era and featuring lesbian protagonists. Her books include Tipping the Velvet, The Night Watch, and Affinity for which she won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, a Ferro-Grumley Award, and an American Library Association Award.
She was born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Wales. She is openly lesbian and lives in London.
