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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'. In 2016, Foreman served as chair of The Man Booker Prize. That same year, her BBC documentary series, 'The Ascent of Woman', was released.

Currently, she is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal bi-weekly ‘Historically Speaking’ and an Honorary Research Senior Fellow in the History Department at the University of Liverpool. Her next book, ‘The World Made by Women: A History of Women from the Apple to the Pill’, is scheduled to be published by Penguin Random House in 2020.

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 2020

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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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Dr. Foreman in conversation with Maya Jasanoff
Thursday, September 19, 2019
6 – 8:30 PM
Consulate General of Canada, New York

The world’s leading history prize, the Cundill History Prize, is announcing its shortlist in New York this year, followed by a conversation between Dr. Amanda Foreman and Maya Jasanoff (the 2018 winner), moderated by Antonia Maioni, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at McGill University.
Read more about the prize via cundillprize.com

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