John Lewis-Stempel

John Lewis-Stempel
Born Hereford
Occupation Writer

John Lewis-Stempel is a historian, farmer, and Sunday Times Top 5 best-selling author. He was born in Herefordshire, England, where his family have lived for over seven hundred years.[1]

Career

He has written on a range of subjects from Native Americans to Fatherhood, often under the pen name Jon E. Lewis, but specialises in military history and natural history under his family name. He is a former columnist for the Sunday Express (for which he still writes features), and currently a columnist for Country Life. His column on nature and farming in Country Life won him Magazine Columnist of the Year in the 2016 BSME Awards [2]

Lewis-Stempel's book Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field won the Thwaites Wainwright Prize and was also short-listed for BBC Countryfile's Country Book of the Year 2014. In 2016 The Running Hare was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times best seller. He was commended for his 'Summa Cima dell'Everest' by the Jury of the Gambrinus 'Giuseppe Mazozotti' Literary Prize, Italy, in the same year.[3]

Awards

Bibliography

Personal life

Lewis-Stempel lives on a farm in Herefordshire with his wife, Penelope, and children, Tristram and Freda.

References

  1. The Wild Life, Doubleday, 2009
  2. http://www.bsme.com/past-events/past-events-blog/2016/10/29/2016-bsme-awards#
  3. http://en.premiomazzotti.it/


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