Margery Kempe was a late medieval English mystic and writer born around 1373 in King's Lynn. After marrying and having many children, she experienced intense spiritual visions and conversations with divine figures, which led her to pursue a life of deep devotion. She is most famous for dictating her spiritual experiences to a scribe, resulting in *The Book of Margery Kempe*. This work is widely recognized as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the English language, documenting her travels, her struggles with heresy accusations, and her profound mystical encounters.