Paul Strathern (born 1940) is a British writer and academic. He was born in London, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin, after which he served in the Merchant Navy over a period of two years. He then lived on a Greek island. In 1966 he travelled overland to India and the Himalayas. His novel A Season in Abyssinia won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1972. Besides five novels, he has also written numerous books on science, philosophy, history, literature, medicine and economics.
Series
Books
Darwin and Evolution
1999
Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
1998
Newton and Gravity
1997
Kierkegaard
Philosophy in an Hour
1997
Einstein and Relativity
1997
The Medici
Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance
2003
Kafka in 90 Minutes
2004
The Florentines
From Dante to Galileo
2021
Poe in 90 Minutes
2006
Napoleon in Egypt
2007
Kant in 90 Minutes
1996
Socrates
Philosophy in an Hour
1997
Leibniz in 90 Minutes
2000
Spinoza in 90 Minutes
1996
The Venetians
A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova
2012
Tolstoy in 90 Minutes
2006
Galileo and the Solar System
1998
Confucius in 90 Minutes
1996
A Brief History of Economic Genius
2002
Hawking and Black Holes
1997
Hegel in 90 Minutes
1995
Crick, Watson and DNA
1997
The Knowledge
The Periodic Table
2015
The Other Renaissance
2023
Locke in 90 Minutes
2003
Rousseau in 90 Minutes
2002
Turing and the Computer
1997
Heidegger in 90 Minutes
1997
Pythagoras And His Theorem
1997
Curie and Radioactivity
1998
A season in Abyssinia;
An impersonation
1972
James Joyce in 90 Minutes
2005
Bertrand Russell in 90 Minutes
2001
The Borgias
Power and Fortune
2019
Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
2004
St. Augustine in 90 Minutes
1997
Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
1999
Bohr and Quantum Theory
1997
Archimedes And The Fulcrum
1998
Borges in 90 Minutes
2006
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
2009
Nabokov in 90 Minutes
2004
J.S. Mill in 90 Minutes
2002
Descartes in 90 Minutes
1996
Dewey in 90 Minutes
2002
Rise and Fall
A History of the World in Ten Empires
2019
Garcia Marquez in 90 Minutes
2004
Ten Cities that Led the World
From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity
2022
Oppenheimer and the Bomb
1998
Machiavelli in 90 Minutes
1992
Mendeleyev's Dream
The Quest for the Elements
2001
Dark Brilliance
The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great
2024
Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
1996
Berkeley in 90 Minutes
2000
Beckett in 90 Minutes
2004
Foucault in 90 Minutes
2000
Derrida in 90 Minutes
1997
Sartre in 90 Minutes
1998
Death in Florence
The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City
2011
Dr. Strangelove's Game
A Brief History of Economic Genius
2001
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy in an Hour
2001
Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
1996
Empire
A New History of the World
2020
Hemingway in 90 Minutes
2005
A Brief History of Medicine
2005
Aristotle in 90 Minutes
1996
Hume in 90 Minutes
1999
Plato in 90 Minutes
1995
Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes
2005
D.H. Lawrence in 90 Minutes
2005
