Simon Schama

Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University. He is the author of The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Dead Certainties, Rembrandt′s Eyes and Landscape and Memory. His monumental History of Britain is published in three volumes by BBC Worldwide in the UK and Talk Miramax Books in the US. He was art critics of the New Yorker in 1995 to 1998 and was made CBE in the 2001 New Year′s Honours list.