Audio Interview with Margaret MacMillan: on How to Write History
Margaret MacMillan was educated at the University of Toronto and at Oxford, where she obtained a B. Phil. in politics and a D. Phil. for a thesis on the British in India between 1880 and 1920. Her books include Women of the Raj, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, which won the 2003 Governor General’s Award, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and was a New York Times Editors’ Choice for 2002, Nixon in China, The Uses and Abuses of History, and most recently Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians: Stephen Leacock. Currently, MacMillan is the Warden of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University.
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June 18th, 2009 at 7:08 PM
That was extremely enjoyable. Thank you for posting to the artengine list.