Simon Schama
Simon Schama studied history at Cambridge University where
from 1966 to 1976 he was Fellow of Christ’s College. From
1976 to 1980 he was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at
Brasenose College, Oxford. From 1980 to 1993 he was
Professor of History, Mellon Professor of the Social
Sciences and William Kenan Professor of the Humanities at
Harvard University and Senior Associate of the Center for
European Studies. He has taught at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales; and has been the Trevelyan
Lecturer at Cambridge University, and the Tanner Lecturer at
both Oxford (on Rubens and Rembrandt) and Harvard
Universities , 2002: ("Random Access Memory: History in the
Digital Age). In 2001 he delivered the Finzi Contini Lecture
at Yale "English History: In Defence of the Epic" and in
June 2002 was the Phi Beta Kappa Orator at Harvard ("The
Fate of Eloquence in the Age of the Osbournes", published in
The New Republic).
He is author of Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in
the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977) which won the Wolfson
Prize for History; Two Rothschilds and the Land of Israel
(1979); The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation
of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987);
Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution
(1989) for which he received the major non-fiction prize in
the UK, the NCR Prize; the historical novel Dead
Certainties (1991) now the subject of a PBS film for
The American Experience (to be broadcast in the summer of
2003); Landscape and Memory (1995) the winner of
the W.H. Smith Literary Award; and the student-voted Lionel
Trilling Prize at Columbia; Rembrandt’s Eyes
(1999); and the trilogy, A History of Britain vol I The
Edge of the World (2000); volume 2 The British
Wars ,( 2001) and volume 3 The Fate of Empire,
(2002). He is currently at work on a book about arguments in
the transatlantic relationship.
Simon Schama has been a regular contributor to The New
Republic; The New York Review of Books; The Guardian, and
since 1994, art and cultural critic for The New Yorker,
winning a National Magazine Award for his art criticism in
1996. His criticism has been published in Dutch as
Kunstzaken (1998) and in Spanish (2002) as
Confesiones y Encargos. His books have been
translated into eleven languages. He has received a
literature award from the National Academy of Arts and
Letters; and in 2001 was made a Commander of the British
Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honour List.
His television work as writer and presenter for the BBC
includes, Art of the Western World; Rembrandt: The
Public Gaze and the Private Eye; a five part Series
based on Landscape and Memory; and most recently an
award-winning 15 part History of Britain which drew
four million viewers in the U.K and was shown in the United
States on the History Channel. A new eight part series for
the BBC, The Power of Art, will begin filming in
the summer of 2004.
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Series
Books:The Story of the Jews, October 2014
Volume 2
Hardcover / e-Book
Story of the Jews, March 2014
Hardcover
The American Future: A History, May 2009
Hardcover
The Power of Art, November 2006
Hardcover
Rough Crossings, May 2006
Hardcover
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