Simon Sebag Montefiore

Simon Sebag Montefiore was born in 1965 and read history at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. Catherine the Great & Potemkin was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper, and Marsh Biography Prizes. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. Young Stalin won the Costa Biography Award (UK), the LA Times Book Prize for Biography (US), Le Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique (France) and the Kreisky Prize for Political Literature (Austria). Montefiore's books are published in 40 languages. Jerusalem: The Biography, out now in paperback, has been a bestseller in many countries and number one in Britain. He is the author of the novel, Sashenka. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at the University of Buckingham, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. Titans of History is published in 2012. He is now writing a sequel to Sashenka and his next history book, the Romanovs. He is the presenter of the BBC tv series, Jerusalem: the Making of a Holy City. Contact the author or follow him on Twitter: @simonmontefiore. For more information see: www.simonsebagmontefiore.com