Richard Holmes
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...See more
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. See less
Richard Holmes's Featured Books
Richard Holmes book reviews
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Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
ORDINARY VOICES IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
by Alan L, Oct 8, 2014
As expected this work is of the highest quality and provides a terrific insight into the lives of ordinary soldiers in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It gives voice to those who have previously ... Read More
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Coleridge: Darker Reflections
a great writer seen in real life
This is the second volume of two. Missing either volume would be a considerable loss, not just because grasping Coleridge's tragic yet triumphant life demands the view of its full development. but ... Read More