georgiana duchesse de devonshire amanda foreman

Her history of British volunteers in the American Civil War, A World on Fire was published in 2010.Ī shy English teenager, she blossomed after she was catapulted to fame by marrying an older, wealthier man. She is currently serving as a judge for the Dan David Prize, the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. In addition to regularly writing and reviewing for newspapers and magazines, Amanda Foreman has also served on a number of juries including The Orange Prize, the Guardian First Book Prize and the National Book Awards. It has inspired a television documentary, a radio play starting Dame Judi Dench and a movie, titled The Duchess, staring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. The book was nominated for several awards and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1999. It has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Turkish, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was a number one best seller in England, and best seller for many weeks in the United States. She received her doctorate in Eighteenth-Century British History from Oxford University in 1998. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. She was born in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England.

She is the daughter of Carl Foreman, the Oscar-winning screen writer of many film classics including, The Bridge on the River Kwai, High Noon, and The Guns of Navarone. She lives in New York with her husband and five children.

Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-winning best seller, 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire', and A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided.

Georgiana duchesse de devonshire amanda foreman