John Julius Norwich was born in 1929. He joined the British Foreign
Service after studying French and Russian at Oxford, and left the
service in 1964 to become a writer. He has also worked extensively
in radio and television, hosting the popular BBC radio panel game
My Word! for several years, and writing and presenting historical
documentaries. His many books include an acclaimed Byzantium
trilogy., John Julius, 2nd Viscount Norwich, was born in 1929, the
son of the statesman and diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper (1st Viscount)
and the Lady Diana Cooper. He was educated at Upper Canada College,
Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and on the lower
deck of the Royal Navy before taking a degree in French and Russian
at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service,
where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in
Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the
Disarmament Conference at Geneva. In 1964 he resigned from the
service in order to write.
His many and varied publications include two books on the medieval
Norman Kingdom in Sicily, The Normans in the South and The Kingdom
in the Sun, which are published by Faber Finds; The Architecture of
Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice, originally
published in two volumes. He is also the author of a three-volume
history of the Byzantine Empire. He has written and presented some
thirty historical documentaries for television, and is a regular
lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects.
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