Adam Sisman.
ADAM SISMAN: ASA BRIGGS BIOGRAPHY
the INDEFATIGABLE ASA BRIGGS (2025)
Asa Briggs’s energy fuelled him to write more than fifty books, including five weighty volumes on the history of broadcasting. He was one of the best-known historians of his generation. From humble beginnings in the back streets of Keighley, he rose to become a peer of the realm, one of the Great and the Good. He was Vice-Chancellor of Sussex, the most fashionable of the new universities, and Chancellor of the Open University, the largest.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adam Sisman (born 1954) is a British writer, editor and biographer. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his second book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Professor of the University of St Andrews. He was educated at St.Paul’s School and the University of Sussex.
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