Susie Harries is a British historian.
Career
She studied classics and classical philosophy at
Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicen ...
and
St Anne's College, Oxford.
She is a winner of the
Wolfson History Prize
The Wolfson History Prizes are literary awards given annually in the United Kingdom to promote and encourage standards of excellence in the writing of history for the general public. Prizes are given annually for two or three exceptional works ...
2012 for her book ''Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life'' about architectural historian
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
.
Personal life
She is married to Meirion Harries and lives in London.
Bibliography
* '' Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life ''
* ''The Last Days of Innocence: America at War, 1917-1918'' (
Random House
Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. The company has several independently managed subsidiaries around the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by Germ ...
, 1997)
* ''A Pilgrim Soul ''
* ''Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army ''
* ''Sheathing the Sword: The Demilitarization of Japan ''
* ''Opera Today ''
References
External links
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21st-century British historians
British women historians
1951 births
Living people
20th-century British historians
21st-century British women writers
20th-century British women writers
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