Richard Hamblyn

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Richard Hamblyn (born 1965) is a British environmental writer and historian. He is a lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, [1] and has contributed articles and reviews to the Sunday Times , The Guardian , the Independent , the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books . [2]

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His books include The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (2001), an account of the life and work of Luke Howard which won a 2001 Los Angeles TimesBook Prize [3] and was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize; [4] [5] Terra: Tales of the Earth (2009), a study of natural disasters, a BBC Wales Science Book of the Year; [6] and an anthology of science writing, The Art of Science: a Natural History of Ideas (2011). [7] He has also written four illustrated books on weather in association with the UK Met Office, including The Cloud Book (2008); Extraordinary Clouds (2009); and Extraordinary Weather (2012), and edited Daniel Defoe's first book, The Storm (1704) for Penguin Classics(2005).Works written in collaboration with the British landscape photographer Jem Southam include Clouds Descending (2009) and The River in Winter (2012).

In the academic year 2008–09 Hamblyn was writer-in-residence at the University College London Environment Institute, and produced the book Data Soliloquies (Slade, 2009) with Martin John Callanan who was artist-in-residence for the same year. [8]

Publications

Books by Richard Hamblyn

Other publications by Richard Hamblyn

References

  1. "Academic staff: Richard Hamblyn". Birkbeck: Department of English and Humanities. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  2. "Richard Hamblyn". London Review of Books. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  3. "2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  4. "Shortlist 2002". The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  5. 1 2 Eder, Richard (31 July 2001). "Books of the Times: He Gave Names to Clouds and Renown to Himself". The New York Times . Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  6. 1 2 "Terra by Richard Hamblyn". London Evening Standard. 20 August 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  7. 1 2 Forbes, Peter (28 October 2011). "The Art of Science by Richard Hamblyn – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  8. Waelder, Pau (3 February 2010). "Data Soliloquies". Furtherfield. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  9. "Katie Paterson: First There is a Mountain".