Ben Wilson
British historian
Ben Wilson is a British historian and the author of Metropolis. He won the Somerset Maugham Award for What Price Liberty?
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Born 1980 in London, United Kingdom
About Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson was born in 1980 and studied history at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Waterstone's named him one of its 25 Authors of the Future in 2005. His book What Price Liberty? won the Somerset Maugham Award. Empire of the Deep, his history of the British Navy, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Metropolis: A History of Humankind's Greatest Invention is another of his titles. Wilson has written for the Spectator, the Guardian and GQ. He has also appeared on TV and national radio.