W. Andrew Robinson

W. Andrew Robinson

W. Andrew Robinson (born 1957) is a British author and former newspaper editor.

Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, University College, Oxford where he read Chemistry and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is the son of Neville Robinson, an Oxford physicist.

Robinson first visited India in 1975 and has been a devotee of the country's culture ever since, in particular the poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the film director Satyajit Ray. He has authored many books and articles. Until 2006, he was the Literary Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement. He is based in London and is now a full-time writer. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Selected books

* "The Coasts of India" with Ashvin Mehta. Thames and Hudson (1987). ISBN 0-500-24130-9.
* "Maharaja: The Spectaular Heritage of Princely India" with Sumio Uchiyama. Thames and Hudson (1988). ISBN 0-500-54136-1.
* "Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye". Andre Deutsch (1989). ISBN 0-233-98473-9.
* "The Art of Rabindranath Tagore". Andre Deutsch (1989). ISBN 0-233-98359-7.
* "The Shape of the World" with Simon Berthon. George Philip (1991). ISBN 0-540-01229-7.
* "Earth Shock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes & Other Forces of Nature". Thames and Hudson (1993). ISBN 0-500-01579-1.
* "Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-minded Man" with Krishna Dutta. St. Martin's Press (1995). ISBN 0-312-14030-4. Also: Bloomsbury (1997). ISBN 0-7475-3086-6.
* "Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology" with Krishna Dutta and Rabindranath Tagore. St. Martin's Press (1997). ISBN 0-312-16973-6. Also: Griffin (1998). ISBN 0-312-20079-X.
* "Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore" with Krishna Dutta and Rabindranath Tagore. Cambridge University Press (1997). ISBN 0-521-59018-3.
* "The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms". Thames and Hudson (2000). ISBN 0-500-28156-4.
* "The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris". Thames and Hudson (2002). ISBN 0-500-51077-6.
* "Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Great Undeciphered Scripts". McGraw-Hill (2002). ISBN 0-07-135743-2.
* "Satyajit Ray, The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker". I.B. Tauris (2003). ISBN 1-86064-965-3.
* "Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema". I.B. Tauris (2005). ISBN 1-84511-074-9.
* "Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity". Palazzo Editions (2005). ISBN 0-9545103-4-8.
* "The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius". Pi Press (2006). ISBN 0-13-134304-1.

External links

* [http://www.andrew-robinson.org/ Andrew Robinson website]
* [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Robinson,%20Andrew Alibris list of books]


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