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John Lewis-Stempel : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Lewis-Stempel
John Lewis-Stempel is a historian, author and farmer, who was born in Herefordshire, England, where his family have lived for over seven hundred years.〔The Wild Life, Doubleday, 2009〕 ==Career== He has written on a range of subjects from Native Americans to Fatherhood, but specialises in military history and natural history. His semi-autobiographical 'The Wild Life' was hailed by Paul Blezard, the literary editor of ''The Lady'' as 'Beautifully written. As close to poetry as you'll find in prose.'〔The Wild Life, Black Swan, 2010〕 Overall Lewis-Stempel has published nearly a hundred books, which have been published in languages as diverse as Portuguese Brazilian and Japanese, and which have sold over a million copies.〔John Lewis-Stempel Author page at Amazon.co.uk〕 He was awarded a Society of Authors Foundation Award in 2012. He is a former columnist for the Sunday Express. Lewis-Stempel started writing under the name 'Jon E. Lewis' for Constable & Robinson, for whom he still writes many books in the 'Autobiography' and 'Mammoth' series, among them the Amazon Top 50 Kindle seller 'London: The Autobiography'. Under his real name of John Lewis-Stempel he published 'Six Weeks: The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War'〔Six Weeks The Short and Gallant Life of the British Officer in the First World War, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010〕 in November 2010 to widespread acclaim; it was reviewed in ''The Literary Review'' as 'The single most moving book that I have read on the Great War.'〔'Fighting Words', Nigel H. Jones, The Literary Review, November, 2010〕 It subsequently became a No. 1 best-seller on WWI on Amazon. In 2011 he authored ''Young Herriot'', a biographical account of the early years of James Herriot, to accompany the BBC series of the same title. His ''The War Behind the Wire'', a study of British POWs in Germany in WW1, was released in January 2014. Max Hastings called it a 'noble service' in ''The Sunday Times''. His latest book is ''Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field'', an Amazon Top 40 bestseller, and a ''Sunday Times'' non-fiction Top 30 hardback. The book won the Thwaites Wainwright prize and was also short-listed for BBC Countryfile's Country Book of the Year 2014. He frequently appears at festivals, and on radio and TV. In May 2014 he was a guest on BBC Radio 4's ''Start the Week''.
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