Susie Harries (born 1951) is a British historian and academic.

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 St Anne's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 and gained full college status in 1959. Originally a women's college, it has admitted men since 1979. ...

. 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 work ...

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'' (195 ...

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 imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the foll ...

, 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

* 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 Wolfson History Prize winners {{UK-historian-stub