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Ruth Scurr was born on 1971 in United Kingdom, is a British historian and literary critic. Discover Ruth Scurr's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?
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Ruth Scurr Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Ruth Scurr's Husband?
Her husband is Sir Peter Stothard (m. 2021)
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Ruth Scurr Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ruth Scurr worth at the age of 53 years old? Ruth Scurr’s income source is mostly from being a successful historian. She is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Ruth Scurr's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Dr Ruth Scurr FRSL, aka Lady Stothard, is a British writer, historian and literary critic.
She is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
She was educated at St Bernard's Convent, Slough; Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Scurr began reviewing regularly for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement in 1997.
Since then she has also written for The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, New Statesman, The London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Observer, The Guardian and The Wall Street Journal.
She won a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2000.
Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (Chatto & Windus, 2006; Metropolitan Books, 2006), won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize (2006), was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize (2006), long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2007) and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times in 2009.
It has been translated into five languages.
Scurr is Director of Studies in Human, Social and Political Sciences for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where she has been a Fellow since 2006.
She was a judge on the Man Booker Prize panel in 2007, the Samuel Johnson Prize panel in 2014, and the Baillie Gifford Prize panel in 2023.
She is a member of the Folio Prize Academy.
Her second book, John Aubrey: My Own Life (Chatto & Windus, 2015; New York Review of Books, 2016), was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Biography Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Her third book, Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows (Chatto & Windus, 2021; Norton, 2021), was published to critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's death.
It won the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for Biography (2022).
She was a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement from 2015 to 2020.
Her research interests include: 17th- and 18th-century history of ideas; biographical, autobiographical and life writing; the British and French Enlightenments; the French Revolution; Revolutionary Memoir; early Feminist Political Thought; and contemporary fiction in English..
Scurr is the Senior Treasurer of a Cambridge-based publication, Per Capita Media.
