Lisa Jardine is Director of the AHRB Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London; she is an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. She writes and reviews for the major UK national newspapers and magazines, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the Orwell Prize, and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize. She is currently Chair of Judges for the 2002 Booker Prize. Lisa Jardine is married to the architect John Hare, and has three children.
Of Ingenious Pursuits (1999): 'LJ has the knack of making science easy to understand. Her book brilliantly recaptures the excitement of the seventeenth-century scientists and the new word of objects they were finding and theorizing' Roy Porter Of Wordly Goods: 'A pleasure to read, as well as a pleasure to hold' Observer
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