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Biographer Richard Holmes was born in London, England on 5 November 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. His first book, Shelley:The Pursuit, was published in 1974 and won a Somerset Maugham Award.
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I first interviewed Richard Holmes, who died of cancer on April 30th, for a television series more than 20 years ago. I was looking for a historian for the Channel 4 series Civil War who could explain not the strategies adopted by Parliament or the Crown but rather what it was like to be caught up in the giant scrum of a 17th-century battle.
Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder , which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the New York Times Book Review ‘s Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes’s other books include This Long Pursuit ...
Issue 223, Winter 2017. Born in London in 1945, Richard Holmes has written ten biographies and books of biographical essays. Even in his early works Shelley (1974) and Coleridge: Early Visions (1989), Holmes demonstrates a keen eye for place and a striking empathy for his subjects. In his pages, one has the chance, however fleeting, to imagine ...
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Richard Holmes has 31 books on Goodreads with 55780 ratings. Richard Holmes’s most popular book is Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
