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Wednesday February 22nd 2012
Philip Ziegler
Biography: its Perils, Pitfalls and Pleasures

THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT BARNES METHODIST CHURCH HALL

Philip Ziegler is one of Britain's most distinguished biographers and historians. His works include biographies of Diana Cooper, Mountbatten, Edward VIII, Harold Wilson, Osbert Sitwell and Edward Heath. He has also written a study of the Black Death and a history of Baring’s Bank. He is currently at work on a new biography of Laurence Olivier.
Philip took a degree in Jurisprudence at Oxford before joining the Diplomatic Service in Vientiane, Paris, Pretoria and Bogota. In 1967 he resigned from the Foreign Service to join the publishers, William Collins. After becoming editor-in-chief he retired to become a full-time writer. Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Historical Society.

For further information see www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ziegler.