Amanda Foreman (author)

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Amanda Foreman (2011)

Amanda Lucy Foreman (born 1968 in London ) is an American-British historian and author.

Life

Amanda Foreman is a daughter of screenwriter Carl Foreman . Amanda Foreman is married and has five children. She first grew up in Los Angeles and then went to school in England. She studied in the USA at Sarah Lawrence College , at Columbia University in New York and from 1991 in England at Lady Margaret Hall College . She received her PhD from Oxford University in 1998 with a dissertation on British history in the 18th century.

The dissertation-based book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire became an international bestseller and received the 1999 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography. It has been translated several times, served as a template for a television documentary, a radio play and in 2008 for the feature film The Duchess . Her book A World on Fire was also a bestseller and won the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War History. The New York Times named it one of the ten best books of 2011. In 2015, she produced the four-part documentary The Ascent of Woman for the BBC . In 2015, Foreman found the resurrected Free the Nipple campaign unhelpful in light of the social crimes women are currently exposed to.

Foreman writes columns for the Wall Street Journal and The Sunday Times and essays on women's history for Smithsonian Magazine . She has been on the jury of all major English-language book awards, including the 2016 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award . The Library Journal of America named the Amanda Foreman Prize for Best Acknowledgments after her.

Fonts

  • Politics or providence? : why the Houses of Parliament voted to abolish the slave trade in 1807 . University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History. Thesis (M.Phil.) - University of Oxford, 1993.
  • Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire . London: HarperCollins, 1998
    • Georgiana: the lusty life of the Duchess of Devonshire . Translated from the English by Susanne Friederike Levin and Martina M. Oepping. Stuttgart; Munich: Dt. Verl.-Anstalt, 2001
  • Georgiana's world: the illustrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire . London: HarperCollins, 2001
  • A world on fire: the epic history of the British in the American Civil War . London: Allen Lane, 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Amanda Foreman , website
  2. Amanda Foreman: Diary , in: Financial Times , September 5, 2015, p. 2
  3. 2016 Judges announced , at: thebookerprizes, December 14, 2015