Nikolaus Pevsner- The Life is the definitive biography of Pevsner, based on exclusive access to his diaries and personal correspondence, as well as the professional archive and the working papers for his colossal series, The Buildings of England.
Susie Harries is a writer specializing in culture, history and the arts. Born in 1951 in London, where she now lives with her husband Meirion and their two sons, she read classics and classical philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge, and St Anne's College, Oxford. She has co-authored seven books with her husband, including major works on twentieth-century arts-The Academy of St Martin in the Fields (1981), The War Artists (1983) and A Pilgrim Soul- a Life of Elisabeth Lutyens (1989). She has also written for the Independent and reviewed books on the arts for the Times Literary Supplement.
This is a biographical masterpiece that shows how the life of one
man can become a prism through which can be read the stories of
both England and Germany in the 20th century...[Harries] book is of
infinite value
*New Statseman*
A biography almost as comprehensive as the BofE [Buildings of
England] itself...It's been worth the 20 year wait
*Independent on Sunday*
What Harries brings to the table is the most intimate portrait of
Pevsner yet
*Sunday Times*
This is not just a fair-minded biography, but also an impressive
and comprehensive one. An enormous one too... even the obsessives
will discover new things
*Spectator*
Magnificent...in Susie Harries's hands, Pevsner's story unlocks a
vitally important chapter in 20th-century history...told with
warmth, lucidity and wit
*Art Quarterly*
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