Tom Holland (author)
| Tom Holland | |
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| Born | 1968 Wiltshire, England |
| Occupation | Author |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Genre | Literary fiction, Nonfiction, History |
| Notable works |
Persian Fire Rubicon In the Shadow of the Sword Millenium |
| Relatives | James Holland (brother) |
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Thomas "Tom" Holland (born 1968) is a British writer, who has published several popular works on classical and medieval history as well as creating two TV documentaries.
Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Chafyn Grove School, Canford School, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he obtained a double First in English and Latin.
He has adapted Herodotus, Homer, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio 4. His novels are set in the past, and generally include a supernatural/horror element. He is the author of several non-fiction books about the ancient world.
In 2004, he was awarded the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content, for his book Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic.
In 2005, James Buchan reviewed Persian Fire positively for The Guardian newspaper, while Paul Cartledge, a professor of Greek history at Cambridge University recommended it for The Independent thus: "If Persian Fire does not win the Samuel Johnson Prize, there is no justice in this world." Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, historian Dominic Sandbrook reported it as "riveting" and praised the "enormous strengths" of the author.
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