Richard Holmes (historian)
Richard Holmes (born November 5, 1945 in London ) is an award-winning British biographer of romantics and science historians of the 19th century. He is married to the novelist Rose Tremain .
Life
Holmes attended Downside School and studied at Churchill College, Cambridge . He became a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy , specializing in 19th Century / Romantic Biographies. He received the Somerset Maugham Award for Shelley: The Pursuit in 1974 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage and the 1998 Duff Cooper Prize for Coleridge: Darker Reflections . He was best known to a larger audience with The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (2008), which won the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award .
Web links
The Age of Wonder
- Following his footsteps . Interview in The Guardian , Sept. 27, 2008.
- When Poets Were Scientists and Nature Their Mysterious Muse . In: New York Times , July 8, 2009.
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| SURNAME | Holmes, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |