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Revision as of 14:17, 14 April 2015 by Danacloud8 (talk | contribs) (Undid revision 656439121 by Nedrutland (talk))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mark Bostridge is a British writer and critic.
He was educated at at Oxford University, where he was awarded the Gladstone Memorial Prize.
His first book was Vera Brittain: A Life, co-written with Paul Berry and published in 1995. This biography of the writer and peace campaigner Vera Brittain was shortlisted for the two major non-fiction prizes of its day, the Whitbread Prize and the NCR Book Award. Bostridge's next Brittain project was a collaboration with Alan Bishop. Their edition of her letters was published in 1998 as Letters from a Lost Generation, and Bostridge adapted the letters for a BBC Radio Four series starring Amanda Root as Brittain and Rupert Graves as Roland Leighton, who was killed in the First World War.
Bostridge's Lives For Sale, an anthology of biographers' tales, was published in 2004. In 2008 he published Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in over half a century, which was awarded the 2009 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and named as a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2008 and an Atlantic Magazine top book of the year.
In 2008, Bostridge also published Because You Died, a selection of Vera Brittain's First World War poetry and prose, to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice. In May 2009 Screen Daily reported that he was working closely with BBC Films on a screen adaptation of Brittain's Testament of Youth. In December 2014 Bostridge's study Vera Brittain and the First World War, containing new research about Testament of Youth's evolution, and an account of the dramatisations of the book culminating in the new film version, was published by Bloomsbury.
In January 2014, Penguin UK published Bostridge's The Fateful Year, a portrait of England in 1914: 'a year that started in peace and ended in war'. The book was shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History in 2015.
He is a brother of Ian Bostridge.
References
- Mark Bostridge (May 21, 2012). "Vera's Testament is young again". The Daily Telegraph.
- "The Fateful Year: England 1914, By Mark Bostridge: Book review - a landscape filled with strikes, spy fever and Suffragettes", The Independent, 14 January 2014. Accessed 20 May 2014
Independent on Sunday article on Mark Bostridge and Florence Nightingale, 28 September 2008
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