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Stella Tillyard FRSL (born 1957) is an English author and historian, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1999 her bestselling book Aristocrats was made into a six-part series for BBC1/Masterpiece Theatre sold to over 20 countries. Winner of the Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Longman/History Today Prize and the Fawcett Prize, she has taught at Harvard; the University of California, Los Angeles; Birkbeck, London and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, London. She is a visiting professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Books 2019 George IV: King in Waiting, Penguin Monarchs series, London 2018 The Great Level, Vintage, London, published in 2019 as Call Upon the Water, Simon & Schuster, New York 2011 Tides of War. A novel of the Peninsular War, Vintage, London. Danish translation available 2006 A Royal Affair. George III and his Troublesome Siblings, Vintage Books, London. Published in New York as A Royal Affair. George III and his Scandalous Siblings, Random House. Swedish translation available 1999 Aristocrats.The Illustrated Companion, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1997 Citizen Lord. Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798, Chatto & Windus, London. Russian, Hungarian and Brazilian translations in preparation 1994 Aristocrats. Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox 1740-1832, Vintage, London. Reprinted by the Folio Society, 2008, with a new introduction. Translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish 1987 The Impact of Modernism, Routledge, London Professional activities 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 2016 Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London 2016 Judge, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2013 Judge, Hesell-Tiltman History Prize for English PEN 2010 Judge, Samuel Johnson Prize 2010-14 Judge, Prison Reform Trust writing competition 2009 Writer in Residence, Farmleigh, Dublin 2006-11 Senior Research Fellow, AHRB Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London 2002 Judge, Whitbread Prize 1999-2000/2005-6, Columnist, Prospect magazine Prizes and awards 2012 Orange Prize long list, Tides of War 1999 Meilleur Livre Etranger, Aristocrats 1997 Whitbread Prize biography short list, Citizen Lord 1995 Fawcett Prize, Aristocrats 1994 Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, Aristocrats 1988 Nicholas Pevsner Prize 1981-2 Knox Fellowship, Harvard University 1979-81 Domus Student, Linacre College, Oxford Film and television 2012 A Royal Affair, Denmark 2012 2009 Deutsches Radio TV documentary, A Royal Affair 2008 "Library Late", National Library, Dublin 2000 "The Making of Aristocrats". One-hour documentary interview. BBC Education 1999 Aristocrats BBC/WGBH 6 part Co-Production with Screen Ireland, for BBC1 and Masterpiece Theatre Radio 2019 BBC Radio4, A Point of View: "The Sea is Back" "Peak Stuff" 2018 BBC Radio 4, A Point of View:  "Speak, History!" "Cities of the Dead" "A Problem with Words" "The Museum of Deportation" 2017 BBC Radio 4, A Point of View: "The Screensaver of Life, or the Idling Brain" 2014 BBC Radio 4 on the Georgians 2012 Woman's Hour, Radio 4, "Female Academicians" 2012 Today, Radio 4, "The History of Fame and Celebrity" 2011 BBC Radio 3, "Private Passions" Recent articles and introductions 2014 Introduction, Jan Morris, The Venetian Empire 2014 "The Creaking of the Scenery", Writing Historical Fiction: The Writers & Artists Companion 2012 Introduction, Nancy Mitford, The Sun King 2008 "Biography and Modernity: some thoughts on origins", Writing Lives, Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modern England 2006 Introduction, James Boswell, London Journal 2006 "All our Pasts", TLS, October 2006. Reprinted in The Author, Spring 2007. 2006 "David Malouf", Prospect 2005 "Alan Hollinghurst", Prospect Catalogue essays 2015 "Newfoundland", the work of Romilly Saumarez Smith, Edmund de Waal Studio; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 2005 "Paths of Glory: Fame and the Public in Eighteenth Century London", Joshua Reynolds and the Creation of Celebrity, Tate Britain, London Recent talks 2019 "The Hanoverians: when Germans spoke French in St James's", Europe House, London 2017 "History and the Historical Novel", Warwick University 2017 "Female Celebrity, Feminism and Celebrity Culture", Oxford University 2016 "Opera and the Historical Novel", Royal Holloway, London 2015 "Tony Small; an African American in Ireland", Dublin Festival of History 2015 "Collecting the World; How Global Art came to Ireland in the Eighteenth Century", Art Institute of Chicago 2015 "Hollywood and the Eighteenth Century", ASECS Conference, Los Angeles 2015 "Two Irish Interiors", Northwestern University 2015 "Celebrity and the Plain Portrait in the Eighteenth Century", King's College, London, February 2014 "History and the Historical Novel", Warwick University, 14 January Personal Tillyard moved to the United States in 1981 and has lived for long periods in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago and Florence. In 2006 she moved to London. She campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU. She divides her time between London and Italy. She has two children. References . Discover the Stella Tillyard popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stella Tillyard books.