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Nigel Hamilton (author)
Nigel Hamilton (born 16 February 1944) is an award-winning British-born biographer, academic and broadcaster, whose works have been translated into sixteen languages. In the United States he is known primarily for his best-selling work on the young John F. Kennedy, ''JFK: Reckless Youth'', which was made into an ABC miniseries. In the United Kingdom, he is known for ''Monty'', a three-volume official life of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the World War II Field Marshal which won both the 1981 Whitbread Award and the Templer Medal for Military History.
He has also written about the lives of Thomas Mann and former President Bill Clinton as well as numerous other works in a variety of fields. His film on the life of Field Marshal Montgomery won the New York Blue Ribbon Award for Best Documentary. He founded the British Institute of Biography and became the first Professor of Biography in the UK at De Montfort University. He is currently Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, where he wrote a modern version of ''The Twelve Caesars'', titled ''American Caesars: Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush'', published in September 2010 by Yale University Press.
==Early life and career==
Hamilton was born in Alnmouth, Northumberland, but spent his early life in London, where his father, Denis Hamilton, a distinguished World War II battalion commander in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, became pioneering editor of ''The Sunday Times'', chairman and editor-in-chief of ''The Times'', chairman of ''Reuters'', and Trustee of the British Museum and British Library.〔''Obituary of Sir Denis Hamilton: One of the Great Editors'', The Times, 8 April 1988.〕 Hamilton was educated at Westminster School with his twin brother Adrian, who later became a prominent British journalist for the London ''Observer'', ''Times'' and ''Independent''.
He then attended Munich University and Trinity College, Cambridge where he received an honours degree in history and a master's degree. Subsequently he trained under André Deutsch and Diana Athill as a book publisher at André Deutsch Publishers. After leaving Deutsch, he taught at a school in Greenwich where he assisted in reviving the historic borough on the River Thames. Hamilton opened a bookstore and began writing with his mother, Olive Hamilton, the first history of Greenwich in nearly a century, ''Royal Greenwich''. He wrote several more guide books and edited the arts page in a London newspaper.
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