Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hibbert

Christopher Hibbert, né le 5 mars 1924 dans le Leicestershire et mort le 21 décembre 2008[1], est un écrivain, historien et biographe anglais.

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Biographie

Il a étudié au Radley College, avant d'aller à Oriel College de l'Université d'Oxford. Il a servi comme officier d'infanterie en Italie dans le régiment des London Irish Rifles pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et a été blessé deux fois. Il a reçu la Military Cross en 1945.

Il a commencé sa carrière d'écrivain en 1958-1959, recevant le prix Heinemann de littérature en 1962 et la médaille McColvin en 1989.

Hibbert est membre de la Royal Geographical Society et de la Royal Society of Literature. Il a reçu un doctorat honorifique en littérature de l'Université de Leicester. Il est également membre de l'Army and Navy Club et du Garrick Club

Il vivait à Henley-on-Thames. Il était marié et père de trois enfants.

Bibliographie

(Liste non exhaustive)
  • King Mob (Longmans, 1958)
  • Wolfe at Quebec (Longmans, 1959)
  • The Destruction of Lord Raglan (Longmans, 1961)
  • Benito Mussolini (Longmans, 1962)
  • The Roots of Evil: A Social History of Crime and Punishment (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963)
  • Agincourt (Batsford, 1964)
  • The Court at Windsor (Longmans, 1964)
  • Garibaldi and his enemies (Longmans, 1965)
  • The Making of Charles Dickens (Harper & Row, 1967)
  • Waterloo(New English library Ltd, 1967)
  • Charles I (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
  • The Search for King Arthur (American Heritage, 1969)
  • The personal history of Samuel Johnson (Longmans, 1971)
  • George IV (Vol 1 Longman, 1972, Vol 2 Allen Lane
  • The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall (Morrow, 1975)
  • Edward VII: A Portrait (Allen Lane, 1976)
  • The Great Mutiny: India, 1857 (Allen Lane, 1978)
  • The Days of the French Revolution (Allen Lane, 1980)
  • The London Encyclopaedia with Ben Weinreb (Macmillan, 1983)
  • Rome, the Biography of a City (Norton, 1985)
  • The English: A Social History (Grafton, 1987)
  • Encyclopaedia of Oxford (Macmillan, 1988)
  • The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age (Addison-Wesley, 1991)
  • Florence: Biography of a City (Norton, 1993)
  • Cavaliers & Roundheads: The English Civil War, 1642-1649 (HarperCollins, 1993)
  • Wellington: A Personal History (Da Capo, 1997)
  • George III: A Personal History (1998)
  • The Marlboroughs (Viking, 2001)
  • Queen Victoria: a personal history (HarperCollins, 2001)
  • Redcoats and Rebels: The American Revolution through British Eyes (Norton, 2002)
  • Napoleon: His wives and women (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • Disraeli: a personal history (HarperCollins, 2004)

Notes et références

  1. (en) Christopher Hibbert telegraph.co.uk, 23 décembre 2008

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