Amanda Foreman Research Paper

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Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be a Wall Street Journal Columnist or a Best-selling author? Dr. Amanda Foreman was born to Evelyn Smith and Carl Foreman, a famous Hollywood film producer and screenwriter, in 1968 in London, England. Amanda is now married with five children. She grew up briefly in Los Angeles, California but later moved back to England and was educated there. She attended Hanford School in Southwest England, an ‘all girls preparatory boarding schools’ and after a number of various girls boarding schools. (Revolvy) Amanda attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. She returned to England in 1991 and in 1993 she was awarded the Henrietta Jex-Blake Senior Scholarship at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford. She later received her doctorate degree in 18th century British History from Oxford University. …show more content…

Her second book, A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided, was also a best-seller. It won the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War History and according to The New York Times it is one of the ten best books of 2011. (Biography) She has judged almost every major literary prize on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award. The Library Journal of America even named a prize after he called the Amanda Foreman Prize for Best Acknowledgements. In 2016 she served as chair on the Man Booker Prize and now she serves on the board of the Whiting Foundation and Americans for

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