Simon Schama
Simon Schama was born in London in 1945. He is Old Dominion Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, and is the author of several books, including The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Landscape and Memory and The American Future: A History.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Death of a Harvard Man
Simon Schama
‘The lettuce sat in its brown bag, wilting in the unseasonable warmth.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Many Deaths of General Wolfe
Simon Schama
‘But what good had this done except to assuage the endless sense of impotence and rage that swelled inside him as spring turned into a scorching, dripping, foul-smelling summer?’