![]() ![]() A World on Fire has been optioned by BBC Worldwide and is currently in development. It has inspired a television documentary, a radio play starting Dame Judi Dench and a movie, The Duchess, staring Keira Knightly and Ralph Fiennes. ![]() The book was nominated for several awards and won the Whitbread Prize for Best Biography in 1999. ![]() It has been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Hungarian, Romanian, Croatian, Turkish, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was a number one best seller in England, and a best seller for many weeks in the United States. She received her doctorate in Eighteenth-Century British History from Oxford University in 1998. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University in New York. She was born in London, brought up in Los Angeles, and educated in England. She lives mainly in New York with her husband and five children. Amanda Foreman is the author of the award-winning best seller, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (HarperCollins UK Random House US), and A World on Fire: A Epic History of Two Nations Divided (Allen Lane UK Random House US). ![]()
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