Andrea Wulf

Books by Andrea Wulf

Andrea Wulf is an award-winning author of several books, including the international bestseller and award-winning The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World which is published in 27 languages. Her latest book is The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity.

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The Best Biographies of 18th-Century Figures, recommended by Andrea Wulf

A great biography should be a readable and deeply-researched story of a person whose life and times can teach us something of our own, explains Andrea Wulf—author of a highly anticipated new biography of the explorer George Forster. Here, she recommends five biographies about 18th-century figures, including a landmark account of the life of Goethe and a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biography.

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