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Andrew Robinson (author)
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 Spectacular 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 .
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