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'''Rupert Christiansen''' is an English writer, journalist and critic, born in London in 1954. He was educated at Millfield and King's College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. As a Fulbright scholar, he also attended Columbia University 1977-8. He has written a number of books, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988 for Romantic Affinities. He has also written for many British and American newspapers and periodicals, including The Spectator, Harper's and Queen, Vanity Fair, Times Literary Supplement and The Literary Review. Formerly arts editor of Harpers and Queen and deputy arts editor of The Observer, he has been opera critic and arts columnist of the Daily Telegraph and dance critic of The Mail on Sunday since 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. He |
'''Rupert Christiansen''' is an English writer, journalist and critic, born in London in 1954. He was educated at Millfield and King's College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. As a Fulbright scholar, he also attended Columbia University 1977-8. He has written a number of books, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988 for Romantic Affinities. He has also written for many British and American newspapers and periodicals, including The Spectator, Harper's and Queen, Vanity Fair, Times Literary Supplement and The Literary Review. Formerly arts editor of Harpers and Queen and deputy arts editor of The Observer, he has been opera critic and arts columnist of the Daily Telegraph and dance critic of The Mail on Sunday since 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. He sits on the boards of Opera magazine, the Charleston Trust and the Gate Theatre. In 2009, he entered a civil partnership with the architectural critic Ellis Woodman. |
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Rupert Christiansen is an English writer, journalist and critic, born in London in 1954. He was educated at Millfield and King's College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. As a Fulbright scholar, he also attended Columbia University 1977-8. He has written a number of books, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988 for Romantic Affinities. He has also written for many British and American newspapers and periodicals, including The Spectator, Harper's and Queen, Vanity Fair, Times Literary Supplement and The Literary Review. Formerly arts editor of Harpers and Queen and deputy arts editor of The Observer, he has been opera critic and arts columnist of the Daily Telegraph and dance critic of The Mail on Sunday since 1996. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997. He sits on the boards of Opera magazine, the Charleston Trust and the Gate Theatre. In 2009, he entered a civil partnership with the architectural critic Ellis Woodman.
Books
- The Complete Book of Aunts
- Faber Pocket Guide to Opera
- Once More, with Feeling!: A Book of Classic Hymns
- Romantic Affinities: Portraits From an Age, 1780-1830
- Paris Babylon: Grandeur, Decadence and Revolution 1869-75
- The Voice of Victorian Sex: Arthur H Clough 1819-1861
- The Visitors: Culture Shock in 19th Century Britain
- William Shakespeare: The Mystery of the World's Greatest Playwright
- Prima Donna: A History
- The Grand Obsession - An Anthology of Opera
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External links
- Rupert Christiansen on WorldCat
- National Public Radio, Rupert Christiansen in conversation with Scott Simon, Weekend Edition, 15 December 2007
- Reviews of books by Rupert Cristiansen
- Bernstein, Richard, "Unconventional History Of the Paris Commune", New York Times, 15 March 1995 (review of Paris Babylon: Grandeur, Decadence and Revolution)
- Bevington, Helen, "When In Doubt, Duel", New York Times, 15 January 1989 (review of Romantic Affinities)
- Hughes, Kathryn, "Aunts aren't just for Christmas", The Guardian, 21 October 2006 (review of The Complete Book of Aunts)
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