Nigel Hamilton
Biographer, academic and broadcaster
Nigel Hamilton is a British-born biographer, academic and broadcaster whose books have been translated into sixteen languages.
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British Born 1944 in Alnmouth, United Kingdom
About Nigel Hamilton
Nigel Hamilton was born on 16 February 1944 in Alnmouth, in the United Kingdom. In the United States he is known for JFK: Reckless Youth, a best-selling book on the young John F. Kennedy that became an ABC miniseries. British readers know him for Monty, an official biography of Field Marshal Montgomery published in three volumes, which won the 1981 Whitbread Award and the Templer Medal for Military History. Hamilton set up the British Institute of Biography, and he was the first professor of biography in the UK, at De Montfort University. He has also written about Thomas Mann and Bill Clinton, and he wrote American Caesars: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush, published by Yale University Press in 2010. He has been a senior fellow at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston. Lincoln vs. Davis is among his books.