Thomas Penn.
THOMAS PENN
WINTER KING: HENRY VII AND THE DAWN OF TUDOR ENGLAND (2011)
A Book of the Year at the Spectator, Sinday Times, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, Daily Mail, and Sunday Telegraph.
Henry VII (1457 - 1509) seized the throne of England after 14 years of exile in Brittany and ruled until his death in 1509. He claimed the trhone through his mother, Margaret Baufort, who was a descendant of Edward III.
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Thomas Penn (born 1974) has a Ph.D. in medieval history from Clare College, Cambridge, and is an editorial director at Penguin UK. His first book, Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England (Penguin Press UK; Simon & Schuster US, 2011) won the HW Fisher Prize and was named a Book of the Year in nine different publications.
