Ruth Scurr
Autor(a) de Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
About the Author
Lecturer and fellow at Gonville Caius College, University of Cambridge, Ruth Scurr is a historian, writer, and literary critic. The author of the award-winning Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution, she lives in Cambridge, England.
Obras por Ruth Scurr
Carlyle's The French Revolution: Continuum Histories 5 (Continuums Histories) (1905) — Editor — 16 exemplares
Germinal (Les Rougon-Macquart, #13) 5 exemplares
'First fruit' in TLS 5394/5, 18 & 25 Aug 2006 [review of de Beer's 'Diary of John Evelyn'] 1 exemplar
Fatal Purity - Robespierre 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1971
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Educação
- Oxford University
St Bernard's Convent, Slough, England, UK
Cambridge University
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France - Ocupações
- journalist
writer
Historian
literary critic - Relações
- Dunn, John (husband, 1997-2013)
- Organizações
- Cambridge University (Gonville and Caius College)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2000)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Ruth Scurr was born in 1971 in London. She studied at Oxford, Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. Her doctorate was on the political thought of the French Revolution and her first book is, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (2006). Ruth Scurr began reviewing regularly for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement in 1997. Since then she has also published in The Telegraph, The Observer, The New Statesman, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation and The New York Observer. As a critic, she is especially interested in contemporary literary fiction. She is a judge for the Man Booker Prize 2007. Ruth Scurr is a College lecturer and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she is a Fellow.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Membros
- 655
- Popularidade
- #38,517
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 11
- ISBN
- 35
- Línguas
- 5
- Marcado como favorito
- 1