Stephen R. Bown

I am an award-winning author of literary non-fiction with seven books to my credit. I write about the history of science, exploration and ideas, taking a biographical and narrative, rather than academic, approach to my writing.

One of my fundamental beliefs is that history is made by people and their complex interactions and behaviours. In my books I try to impress this particular point, that the seemingly unfathomable decisions and attitudes of historical figures are the products of people genetically exactly the same as us.