![]() ![]() These were the kinds of far-reaching questions that a 19th century club of gentlemen scientists set themselves the task of answering – and their ground-breaking discoveries shaped the way we understand the world today. Why are kangaroos found only in Australia? What created the Niagara Falls? Why did horses have to be introduced to the Americas? How were volcanoes created? Why are the rock formations of the Alps so twisted? Did the Biblical Flood really happen? Her latest book READING THE ROCKS, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017 and became a Sunday Times Book of the Year.īrenda was married to Sir John Maddox, Editor Emeritus of Nature, who died in 2010, and has two children and two step-children. Her biography of Ernest Jones, the biographer of Freud, was published in 2007 by John Murray. GEORGE'S GHOSTS: A NEW LIFE OF W B YEATS was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and ROSALIND FRANKLIN: THE DARK LADY OF DNA won the English-Speaking Union’s Marsh Biography Prize for 2002–3. NORA: THE LIFE OF MRS JAMES JOYCE was translated into eight languages, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Prize for Biography, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. She was also a biographer of international repute. ![]() For many years she was Home Affairs Editor of The Economist. ![]() Born and brought up in Massachusetts and with a degree in English literature from Harvard, Brenda Maddox was a long-time resident of the UK. ![]()
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