Iain Pears

Biography:

Iain Pears is an English art historian novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School Warwick Wadham College and Wolfson College Oxford. Before writing he worked as a reporter for the BBC Channel 4 and ZDF and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy France UK and US. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University.