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Simon Schama is university professor of art history and history at Columbia University. Before coming to Columbia, he taught history at Cambridge from 1966-76, Oxford from 1976-1980, and art history and history at Harvard from 1980-1993.

He has written 14 books, including Landscape and Memory (1995), Rough Crossings (2005), and The American Future (2009),

Since 1990, he has written and presented more than 30 documentaries on art and history for the BBC.He first garnered public attention for his 15-part BBC series A History of Britain (2000-2002), which won numerous awards. His other TV credits include the BBC's Emmy-winning eight-part Power of Art (2006 — BAFTA nomination for the Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual).

From 1995-98, Schama was art critic and cultural essayist for The New Yorker, which gained him the National Magazine Award in 1996.

Resources by this Author:

• Realism
• Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
• Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
• Scribble, Scribble, Scribble
• The American Future: A History
• The American Future: A History
• The American Future: A History