Lacey Baldwin Smith
Lacey Baldwin Smith (1922 – September 8, 2013[1]) was an historian and author specialising in 16th-century England. He was the author of Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty and Catherine Howard: A Tudor Tragedy, among other books.
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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, Smith taught at Princeton University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Northwestern University. He received two Fulbright awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other awards. He lived in Vermont during his retirement, dying at Greensboro.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972.[3]
Works
- Tudor Prelates and Politics, 1536–1558 (Princeton Studies in History. vol. 8.) (1953)
- Catherine Howard: A Tudor Tragedy
- The Elizabethan Epic (1966)
- The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World (1966; Reprinted as The Elizabethan World, 1973)
- Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty (1973)
- Elizabeth Tudor: Portrait of a Queen (1976)
- Dimensions of the Holocaust - A series of lectures presented at Northwestern University and coordinated by the Department of History by Elie Wiesel and Lacey Baldwin Smith (1983)
- Treason in Tudor England: Politics & Paranoia (1986)
- Fools, Martyrs, Traitors: The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World (1997)
- English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable (2007)
- This Realm of England 1399–1688
- Anne Boleyn: The Queen of Controversy (2013)
References
- ^ "PROFESSOR LACEY SMITH Obituary - Burlington, VT | The Burlington Free Press". Legacy.com.
- ^ "RandomHouse.ca | Author Spotlight: Full Spotlight". Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2009-05-31.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.