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...ibuting Editor at the Financial Times.
He also taught history at Cambridge (Christ's College), Oxford and art history and history at Harvard before coming to Columbia.
His books have won the Wolfson Award for History, the W.H Smith Prize for Literature; the National Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature and most recently for Rough Crossings the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Non-Fiction (2007). His latest book, The American Future: A History was published in the spring of 2009. He has been an essayist and critic for The New Yorker since 1994, his art criticism winning the National Magazine Award in 1996. His art essays have also been collected and published as Hang-Ups, Essays on Painting (Mostly).
His television work for the BBC and PBS as writer-presenter includes two films on Rembrandt; a five part series based on Landscape and Memory, the award-winning, Emmy-nominated A History of Britain; a film on Tolstoy; a ninety minute adaptation of Rough Crossings, and the eight part Power of Art. “Bernini” from that series won the 2007 International Emmy for best Arts programme. A stage version of Rough Crossings for Headlong Theatre, written by Caryl Phillips and directed by Rupert Goold played in Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Leeds in the autumn of 2007. His four part series for BBC2 and The History Channel “The American Future: A History” aired in Britain before the presidential election of 2008, and in the United State in the spring of 2009.
Schama is an art and cultural critic for The New Yorker.
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- International Affairs
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- History of Britain
- Religion in Politics
- Looking to the past to find lessons for tomorrow
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