Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the award-winning historian and internationally best-selling author of 'Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire' and 'A World on Fire'. She is also the recipient of the 1998 Whitbread Award for Biography. 'Georgiana' has been translated into a dozen languages and inspired a television documentary, a radio play starting Dame Judi Dench, and an Oscar winning feature film, 'The Duchess', staring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. 'A World on Fire' was published in the UK in fall 2010 to critical acclaim, and is slated for release in the US in summer 2011.