Richard Holmes

Falling Upwards

Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture the Aeronauts

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Produktbeschreibung

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780008380267
• ISBN-10: 0008380260
• Artikelnr.: 58052392

Autorenporträt

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was one of the ten New York Times¿ Best Books of the Year in 2009. His other biographies include Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the 1974 Somerset Maugham Prize), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Duff Cooper Prize), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the 1993 James Tait Black Prize). This Long Pursuit completes the autobiographical trilogy begun in Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). Holmes was awarded the OBE in 1992. He is the 2018 winner of the BIO Award presented by the Biographers International Organization for sustained achievement in biography. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.