Author Bio
• Birth—August 15, 1976
• Where—Nottinghamshire, England, UK
• Education—Pembroke College, Cambridge; Magdalen College, Oxford.
• Awards—EM Forster Award
• Currently—lives in Cambridge, England
Robert Macfarlane is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. 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 EM Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to China scholar Julia Lovell.
Early life and education
Macfarlane was born in rural Nottinghamshire and attended Nottingham High School. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He began a PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 2000, and in 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the College. (From Wikipedia. Retrieved 3/21/2020.)
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