Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. #wsite-content h2.wsite-product-title {} } Ruth Scurr is the author of Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution and John Aubrey: My Own Life. In his Brief Lives we meet Christopher Wren, Isaac Newton and Thomas Hobbes; see the stones of Stonehenge and the stained glass of long-forgotten churches. Born in 1971, Ruth Scurr studied at Oxford and Cambridge, where she currently teaches politics and history. Ruth Scurr. https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2017/06/the-folio-society-publishes-limited-edition-of-hookes-micrographia.phtml, https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/01/30/aubrey-illustrated/, http://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2016/nonfiction#book/book-18, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/books/review-john-aubrey-my-own-life-ruth-scurr.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/finally-a-biography-of-the-man-who-invented-biography/2016/09/07/da517caa-7063-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/the-nix-the-lesser-bohemians-the-book-of-human-emotions-and-john-aubrey-my-own-life, http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2016/06/svetlana-alexievich-at-the-cambridge-union.html, http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2016/literary-voices-vie-for-the-uk-s-oldest-book-prize, https://www.waterstones.com/blog/john-aubrey-my-own-life, http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2016/03/observeranthony-burgess-prize-for-arts-journalism.html, http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1637188.ece, http://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2015/nov/28/best-books-of-2015-part-one, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dbbe9112-940a-11e5-b190-291e94b77c8f.html, http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14109747.Scotland_s_most_influential_people_on_the_best_books_they_ve_read_in_20, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/best-100-books-for-christmas/, http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2015/10/michael-holroyd-at-80.html, http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/whats-on/2015/rewriting-history/, http://www.budlitfest.org.uk/ruth-scurr-budleigh-salterton-literary-festival-devon/, http://cafe-musain.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/retrato-de-um-revolucionario.html, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/11/best-holiday-reads-2015, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bd4a767c-1b99-11e5-8201-cbdb03d71480.html, http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2015/talks/biography-of-a-biographer/, http://programme.cvhf.org.uk/speaker/ruth-scurr/, Peter Hennessy, Ruth Scurr, Leanne Wood, Rosie Boycott: https://www.hayfestival.com/p-9597-peter-hennessy-ruth-scurr-leanne-wood-rosie-boycott.aspx, http://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/speaker/ruth-scurr-julia-blackburn/, http://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/speaker/sandra-smith/, http://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/antonia-fraser/, http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2015/mar/06/karl-ove-knausgaard-alexandra-fuller-ruth-scurr-life-writing-podcast, http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1523401.ece, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/09/samuel-johnson-prize-2014-shortlist-announced-memoirs, http://www.thesamueljohnsonprize.co.uk/node/352. Ruth Scurr After Such Knowledge. .wsite-phone {} .wsite-elements.wsite-footer div.paragraph, .wsite-elements.wsite-footer p, .wsite-elements.wsite-footer .product-block .product-title, .wsite-elements.wsite-footer .product-description, .wsite-elements.wsite-footer .wsite-form-field label, .wsite-elements.wsite-footer .wsite-form-field label{} } .wsite-elements.wsite-not-footer div.paragraph, .wsite-elements.wsite-not-footer p, .wsite-elements.wsite-not-footer .product-block .product-title, .wsite-elements.wsite-not-footer .product-description, .wsite-elements.wsite-not-footer .wsite-form-field label, .wsite-elements.wsite-not-footer .wsite-form-field label, #wsite-content div.paragraph, #wsite-content p, #wsite-content .product-block .product-title, #wsite-content .product-description, #wsite-content .wsite-form-field label, #wsite-content .wsite-form-field label, .blog-sidebar div.paragraph, .blog-sidebar p, .blog-sidebar .wsite-form-field label, .blog-sidebar .wsite-form-field label {} .wsite-image div, .wsite-caption {} _W.themePlugins = []; _W.recaptchaUrl = "https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js";