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- Amanda Foreman was born in 1968 in London, England, UK. She is a writer and producer, known for The Duchess (2008), The Ascent of Woman (2015) and The Bookworm (1994). She is married to Jonathan Barton. They have five children.
- SpouseJonathan Barton(? - present) (5 children)
- Daughter of Carl Foreman, sister of Jonathan Foreman.
- Her "Georgiana" biography in 1998 won the U,K.'s prestigious Whitbread Prize. In 2011 she also published an epic non-fiction study, "A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War".
- Is a citizen and resident of both the U.S. and U.K. She and her brother Jonathan were born in England where her screenwriter/producer father, Carl - and second wife Estelle - had exiled themselves following McCarthy-era blacklisting in the U.S. She attended both Sarah Lawrence and Columbia University before earning a graduate degree from Oxford.
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