Mary Beard is the author of multiple books, including the NBCC finalist Confronting the Classics, and most recently, the best-selling SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, Beard is a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge.
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Celebration of the Nobel Prizes
Spring 2001
Down among the Women (Nobel Laureates)
In 1977 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the founders of the Northern Irish “Peace People.” Just a year before, in August 1976, three […]