Robert Macfarlane (writer)
British nature writer (born 1976) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
For other people with a similar name, see Robert MacFarlane (disambiguation).
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Born | (1976-08-15) 15 August 1976 (age 47) Halam, Nottinghamshire, England |
Education | Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. |
Occupation(s) | Writer, Professor |
Known for | Nature writing |
Notable work | Mountains of the Mind; The Wild Places; The Old Ways; Landmarks; The Lost Words; Underland |
Spouse | Julia Lovell |
Children | Lily Iona Macfarlane, Thomas Edward Macfarlane, William Alexander Macfarlane |
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He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017) and Underland (2019). In 2017 he received The E. M. Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to professor of modern Chinese history and literature Julia Lovell.