Richard Hamblyn

Richard Hamblyn (born 1965) is a British environmental writer and historian. He is a lecturer in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London,[1] and has contributed to the Sunday Times, The Guardian, the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.[2]

His books include The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (2001, Picador, ISBN 978-0330391955), an account of the life and work of Luke Howard which won a 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize;[3][4] Terra: Tales of the Earth (2009, Picador, ISBN 978-0330490733), a study of natural disasters, a BBC Wales Science Book of the Year;[5] and an anthology of science writing, The Art of Science: a Natural History of Ideas (2011, Picador, ISBN 978-0330490764).[6] He has also written four illustrated books on weather in association with the UK Met Office, including The Cloud Book (2008, ISBN 978-07153-28088); Extraordinary Clouds (2009, ISBN 978-07153-32818); and Extraordinary Weather (2012, ISBN 978-14463-01913), and edited Daniel Defoe's first book, The Storm (1704) for Penguin Classics (2005, ISBN 978-0141-43992-1). Works written in collaboration with the British landscape photographer Jem Southam include Clouds Descending (2009) and The River Winter (2012).

In the academic year 2008-09 Hamblyn was writer-in-residence at the University College London Environment Institute, and produced the book Data Soliloquies (Slade Press, 2009, ISBN 9780903305044) with Martin John Callanan who was artist-in-residence for the same year.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Academic staff: Richard Hamblyn". Birkbeck: Department of English and Humanities. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  2. ↑ "Richard Hamblyn". London Review of Books. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  3. ↑ "Shortlist 2002". The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  4. ↑ Eder, Richard (31 July 2001). "Books of the Times: He Gave Names to Clouds and Renown to Himself". New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  5. ↑ "Terra by Richard Hamblyn". Evening Standard. 20 August 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  6. ↑ Forbes, Peter (28 October 2011). "The Art of Science by Richard Hamblyn - review". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  7. ↑ Waelder, Pau (3/2/2010 publisher=Furtherfield). "Data Soliloquies". Retrieved 12 October 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
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