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Simon Schama
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Simon Schama was born in 1945. The son of a textile merchant with Lithuanian and Turkish grandparents, he spent his early years in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex. When his parents moved to London he won a scholarship to Haberdashers' Aske's School where his two great loves were English and History. Forced to choose between the two he opted to read history at Christ's College, Cambridge. Here he was taught by Sir John Plumb whose other students: Linda Colley, Roy Porter and John Brewer are now central to British historical thought. It was Plumb's influence which instilled in him the importance of narrative...
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Theresa MacPhail
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I'm a medical anthropologist and writer, usually of nonfiction, mostly about topics in public health and medicine. I'm also an Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. My first book for Random House is out now (2023) . It's called and it tells the story of the global rise in allergies over the last 200 years. My next book, that I'm currently researching, is on aging. It dives into what happens to our bodies and minds as we age and why acceptance of aging (and our eventual deaths) is the key to "aging well. " Think of it like...
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