"The biographer's true gifts shine. Rarely has a distant century felt so immediate, its quirks and glories so vivid."--"Washington Times"
Katie Whitaker received an MA in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She received a Ph.D. in the history of science at Cambridge, where she was awarded the Thirlwall Prize and Medal in 1997 for the best original historical research by a Cambridge scholar under thirty. She lives in Yorkshire, England.
