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Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as "a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind." Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are Disney, Picasso, Bach, and Shakespeare; Austen, Twain, and T. S. Eliot; and Drer, Hokusai, Pugin, and Viollet-le-Duc, among many others.Paul Johnson believes that creation cannot be satisfactorily analyzed, but it can be illustrated to bring out its salient characteristics. That is the purpose of this instructive and witty book.
About the Author
Paul Johnson works as a historian, journalist and author. He was educated at Stonyhurst School in Clitheroe, Lancashire and Magdalen College, Oxford, and first came to prominence in the 1950s as a journalist writing for, and later editing, the New Statesman magazine. He has also written for leading newspapers and magazines in Britain, the US and Europe. Paul Johnson has published over 40 books including A History of Christianity (1979) , A History of the English People (1987) , Intellectuals (1988) , The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815 - 1830 (1991) , Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000 (1999) , A History of the American People (2000) , A History of the Jews (2001) and Art: A New History (2003) as well as biographies of Elizabeth I (1974) , Napoleon (2002) , George Washington (2005) and Pope John Paul II (1982) .
