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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