She has contributed essays to numerous books including City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts, What Might have Been, Reconfiguring the Union: Civil War Transformations, Gender in Eighteenth-Century England, and The New York Times’ Disunion. The book was named one of the “Ten Best Books of 2011” by The New York Times, and dozens of other publications including The New Yorker and The Economist. It was the winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War History, runner-up for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize, and a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, the Lionel Gelber Prize, the Jefferson Davis Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2011 Foreman published A World on Fire, a history of Anglo-American relations during the Civil War. It inspired a television documentary, a radio play starring Dame Judi Dench and the Oscar-winning film, ‘The Duchess’, starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. It won the 1998 Whitbread Prize for Best Biography and was shortlisted for the 1998 Guardian First Book Award. She received her doctorate in 18th Century British History from Oxford University in 1998.Īfter completing her DPhil at Oxford University, Foreman published her first book in 1998, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which was based on her doctoral thesis. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York, and Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford. She has held teaching and research fellowships at NYU, Queen Mary University of London, and The University of Liverpool.Īmanda was born in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England. Amanda Foreman is the author of the prize-winning best sellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided.
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