Nigel Hamilton (author)
| Nigel Hamilton | |
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Nigel Hamilton in 2008
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| Born |
16 February 1944 Alnmouth, Northumberland |
| Occupation | Non-fiction author, academic, broadcaster |
| Nationality | United Kingdom United States |
| Period | 1968–present |
| Genre | Biography, art of life writing, Military History, American presidency, German literature, Topography |
| Children | Alexander, Sebastian, Nick and Christian |
Nigel Hamilton (born 16 February 1944) is an award-winning British-born biographer, academic, and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. In the United States, he is known primarily for his best-selling work on the young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, which was made into an ABC miniseries. In the United Kingdom, he is known for Monty, a three-volume official life of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a senior military commander in World War II, which won both the 1981 Whitbread Award and the Templer Medal for Military History.
He has also written about the lives of Thomas Mann and former President Bill Clinton as well as numerous other works in a variety of fields. His film on the life of Field Marshal Lord Montgomery won the New York Blue Ribbon Award for Best Documentary. He founded the British Institute of Biography and became the first Professor of Biography in the UK at De Montfort University. He is currently Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he wrote a modern version of The Twelve Caesars, titled American Caesars: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, published in September 2010 by Yale University Press.
Hamilton was born in Alnmouth, Northumberland, but spent his early life in London, where his father, Lt-Colonel Sir Denis Hamilton, a distinguished World War II battalion commander in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, became a pioneering editor of The Sunday Times, chairman and editor-in-chief of The Times, chairman of Reuters, and Trustee of the British Museum and British Library. Hamilton was educated at Westminster School with his twin brother Adrian, who later became a prominent British journalist for the London Observer, Times and Independent.
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