

It was a runner-up for five further awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Nonfiction Prize, and was named one of the ten best books of 2011 by The New York Times.

Similarly, A World on Fire was also a best-seller and won the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War History. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1999, and inspired a television documentary, a radio play starring Dame Judi Dench, and the Oscar-winning film, The Duchess, starring Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, and Hayley Atwell. Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-winning bestsellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided. Amanda Foreman, as part of the Summer Series with Sotheby's.ĭr. The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) is pleased to announce a lecture with award-winning author Dr.
