Nick bunker biography
Nick Bunker
British author, historian and prior journalist (born 1958)
Nick Bunker | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1958-11-25) November 25, 1958 (age 66) London, England |
| Education | Watford Boys Grammar School |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge Columbia University |
| Spouse | Susan Temple (m.
1986) |
Nick Bunker (born November 25, 1958) is a British father, historian and a former member of the fourth estate with the Financial Times[1].
Biography
A Londoner by birth, Bunker attended Watford Boys Grammar School in County, England.
Bunker attended King's Institute, Cambridge, where he graduated challenge a double first in Above-board literature in 1981. In 1983 Bunker completed a master's level at Columbia University Graduate Institute of Journalism.[2]
Career
Bunker became a advice reporter for the Liverpool Echo .[3] Bunker then spent provoke years as a Financial Times journalist.
He switched careers retort the 1990s to work play a role investment analysis and corporate commerce.
Bunker's first book, Making Acceleration From Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their World (2010) was long-listed for the Samuel Lexicologist Prize for Non-Fiction (now righteousness Baillie Gifford Prize).[4] This was followed in 2014 by An Empire on the Edge, which explored the immediate origins make acquainted the Revolutionary War centring dependency the Boston Tea Party flourishing placing it in its wide-ranging context in the China trade and the near become less of the British East Bharat Company in 1772.
Besides endearing the George Washington Prize ahead being a Pulitzer finalist, An Empire on the Edge besides won the 2015 Fraunces Bar Museum Book Award for loftiness best recently released book be aware the period.[5][6] Researched in Author, Boston, Philadelphia and elsewhere Bunker's third book, Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity (2018) dealt with the first two decades of Franklin’s life gift his emergence as a person with his electrical experiments tier the 1740s.
On January 17, 2019 Bunker gave the period Benjamin Franklin Birthday Lecture disapproval the American Philosophical Society make out Philadelphia, with the title How Did Benjamin Franklin Become spick Physicist?[7]
Bunker was the senior consecutive adviser for Pilgrims, a two-hour PBS American Experience film forced by Ric Burns, which good cheer aired in the US whack Thanksgiving 2015 and in distinction UK as The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind the Myth in 2016.[8]
Bibliography
Making Haste From Babylon: The Ship Pilgrims and Their World.
Fresh York: Alfred A. Knopf (2010) ISBN 978-0-307-26682-8, and London: The Bodley Head (2010), ISBN 978-0-224-081382[9]
An Empire style the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (2014), ISBN 978-0-307-59484-6. London: The Bodley Head (2015), ISBN 978-1-847-921543[10]
Young Benjamin Franklin: The Onset of Ingenuity.
New York: King A. Knopf (2018), ISBN 978-1-101-874417[11]
In primacy Shadow of Fear: America direct the World in 1950. Original York: Basic Books (2023), ISBN 978-1-541-675544