Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-wining best-seller, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. 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 was born in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. She received her doctorate in Eighteenth-Century British History from Oxford University in 1998. ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’ was a number one bestseller in England, and best-seller for many weeks in the United States. It has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish. The book was nominated for several awards and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1999 Since the publication of "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire", Amanda Foreman has worked as a presenter on English television and radio. She also writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in both the United States and the United Kingdom. ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire’ has inspired a television documentary, a radio play starting Dame Judi Dench; and a movie, titled ‘The Duchess’, staring Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes. Amanda is currently living in New York with her husband and five children. She has been working on her second book for the past eight years. Called, ‘Our American Cousins,’ the book tells the remarkable story of the British men and women who volunteered their services during the American Civil War. It is almost finished and will be published by Random House in 2009.