John Cornwell
1 workpublishing since 2007
John Cornwell is a British journalist and author, born in London in 1940. A former seminarian, an experience he recounts in the memoir Seminary Boy, he worked at The Observer before directing, from 1990, the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is best known for his books on the papacy, including A Thief in the Night (1989), on the death of John Paul I, and Hitler's Pope (1999), a contested biography of Pius XII. He also wrote Hitler's Scientists, on German science under Nazism.
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John Cornwell is a British journalist and author, born in London in 1940. A former seminarian, an experience he recounts in the memoir Seminary Boy, he worked at The Observer before directing, from 1990, the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. He is best known for his books on the papacy, including A Thief in the Night (1989), on the death of John Paul I, and Hitler's Pope (1999), a contested biography of Pius XII. He also wrote Hitler's Scientists, on German science under Nazism.
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1 work · 20072007
- Seminary BoyPaperback