Amanda Foreman
Amanda Foreman is a British-American biographer and historian. She is the author of the prize-winning bestsellers 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' and 'A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War'. Foreman also wrote and starred in a four-part documentary series titled 'The Ascent of Woman'. She has held teaching and research fellowships at NYU, Queen Mary University of London, and the University of Liverpool. Foreman is also a CBS News royal contributor and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Times, and Smithsonian magazine. She is the chair of the Feminist Institute and a trustee of the Whiting Foundation.
Awards
['2012 Lincoln Prize', '2012 Lionel Gelber Prize', '2012 National Book Critics Circle Award', '2011 Jefferson Davis Award', '2010 PEN/Hessell-Tiltman History Prize', '1998 Guardian First Book Award', '1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography', '2012 Fletcher Pratt Award for excellence in Civil War history writing', "2016 St. George's Society of New York's Anglo-American Cultural Award"]
Notable Works
['Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire', "A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War", 'The Ascent of Woman']
