Nigel Hamilton
| Titles: | American Caesars , Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton - Volume One |
| Category: | Non-Fiction |
| Agent: | Andrew Gordon |
| Nicky Lund |
Nigel Hamilton was born in 1944, and studied history at Cambridge University. His first major biography, The Brothers Mann, was critically acclaimed both in Britain and the USA, and widely translated. Monty, the first of his three-volume official life of Field Marshal Montgomery, won the Whitbread Award for Biography and the Templar medal. JFK: Reckless Youth was a bestseller on both sides of the Atlantic in 1992, selling over a quarter of a million copies in hardback. His two-volume biography of Bill Clinton has also been published as a one-volume edition.
His most recent book, American Caesars, looks at twelve American presidents and was published in 2010 by Bodley Head. He is now working on a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt as Commander-in-Chief, to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US and Bodley Head in the UK.
