Simon Schama
Simon Schama (born 1945) is University Professor at Columbia University and an eminent scholar of both history and art history. He is the author of numerous works on history and art, including Landscape and Memory, Dead Certainties, Rembrandt's Eyes, and his history of the French Revolution, Citizens. He is most famous for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain. He is the former art and cultural critic for The New Yorker.
Books
- Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780-1813 (1977)
- The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age (1987)
- Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution (1989)
- Dead Certainties (1991) (a novel)
- Landscape and Memory (1995)
- Rembrandt?s Eyes (1999)
- A History of Britain (2000-2003)
