W. Andrew Robinson
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W. Andrew Robinson (born 1957) is a British author and newspaper editor.
Andrew Robinson was educated at the Dragon School, Eton College where he was a King's Scholar, University College, Oxford where he read Chemistry and finally the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is the son of Neville Robinson, an Oxford physicist.
Robinson first visited India in 1975 and has been a devotee of the country's culture ever since, in particular the poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the film director Satyajit Ray. He has authored many books and articles. He is the Literary Editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and is based in London. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Selected books
- The Coasts of India with Ashvin Mehta. Thames and Hudson (1987). ISBN 0500241309.
- Maharaja: The Spectaular Heritage of Princely India with Sumio Uchiyama. Thames and Hudson (1988). ISBN 0500541361.
- Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye. Andre Deutsch (1989). ISBN 0233984739.
- The Art of Rabindranath Tagore. Andre Deutsch (1989). ISBN 0233983597.
- The Shape of the World with Simon Berthon. George Philip (1991). ISBN 0540012297.
- Earth Shock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes & Other Forces of Nature. Thames and Hudson (1993). ISBN 0500015791.
- Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-minded Man with Krishna Dutta. St. Martin's Press (1995). ISBN 0312140304. Also: Bloomsbury (1997). ISBN 0747530866.
- Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology with Krishna Dutta and Rabindranath Tagore. St. Martin's Press (1997). ISBN 0312169736. Also: Griffin (1998). ISBN 031220079X.
- Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore with Krishna Dutta and Rabindranath Tagore. Cambridge University Press (1997). ISBN 0521590183.
- The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms. Thames and Hudson (2000). ISBN 0500281564.
- The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris. Thames and Hudson (2002). ISBN 0500510776.
- Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Great Undeciphered Scripts. McGraw-Hill (2002). ISBN 0071357432.
- Satyajit Ray, The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker. I.B. Tauris (2003). ISBN 1860649653.
- Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema. I.B. Tauris (2005). ISBN 1845110749.
- Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity. Palazzo Editions (2005). ISBN 0954510348.
- The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius. Pi Press (2006). ISBN 0131343041.
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