Author Photographs

The Sunday Times Magazine

“A World On Fire” Jacket Photograph

The Lady

Official author photograph

Amanda Foreman receiving the Whitbread award in 1999

Unofficial author photograph

Amanda Foreman on the set at Greenwich

Amanda Foreman at the London premier of The Duchess

Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers, ‘Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire', and 'A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided'. She is currently a columnist for 'The Wall Street Journal'. Her latest work is the BBC documentary series, 'The Ascent of Woman'. In 2016, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. Her book on the history of women, 'The World Made by Women', will be published in 2018. She is a co-founder of the literary nonprofit, House of SpeakEasy Foundation, a trustee of the Whiting Foundation, and an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Liverpool. Amanda lives in New York with her husband and five children.

Coming in 2019

The World Made By Women: a narrative history of women from prehistory to present day. It is time for the history of women to break free from the straight jacket of Women's History. The history of women is the history of the world.

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Saturday, October 20
BAM and the Onassis Cultural Center New York present “On Confronting Silence” in conjunction with “Measure for Measure”
https://www.bam.org/talks/2018/on-confronting-silence

Monday, November 12
Speaking Engagement, the Potomac School
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Thursday, December 6
Speaking Engagement, Philips Academy Andover
https://www.andover.edu

6 days ago by dramandaforeman Do you have your tickets for next week's @houseofspeakeasy event? We are so excited to kick off the new season! Join me in welcoming @elliot .ackerman, Richard Cohen, @faithsalie , and @sstefanovic to our stage. See you September 18th! #bookworm #literary #cabaret #altcabaret #writer #thelongway #seriouslyentertaining #seriousentertainment
1 week ago by dramandaforeman "Through a long and painful journey that took her to some very dark places, she ultimately came out the other side and became a confident, directed, controlled woman who had agency, autonomy, and authority: those three things that every modern woman needs." I was very pleased to see myself quoted in @vinitanangia 's piece for @thetimesofindia , "You Cannot Be Anyone But You!". Link in bio https://bit.ly/2NyLqQO #princessdiana #whitneyhouston #fame #nostalgia #princess #writer #royalfamily
2 weeks ago by dramandaforeman "From ‘cantarella’ to polonium, governments have used toxins to terrorize and kill their enemies." My latest piece for the @wsj is out! Clink on the link in my bio to read "Poison and Politics". #poison #russia #assassination #writer #feminist #resist https://bit.ly/2oNIOR3

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