Vincent Cronin (born May 24, 1924 in Tredegar, Wales) is a British historical, cultural, and biographical writer whose works have been widely translated into European languages. He is known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, as well as for his books on the Renaissance.
Cronin was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947. During the Second World War, he served as a lieutenant in the British Army. In 1949, he married Chantal de Rolland, and they have five children. The Cronins are long-time residents of London, Marbella, and Dragey, in Avranches, Basse-Normandie, where they live at the Manoir de Brion.
In addition to being a recipient of a W.H. Heinemann Award (1955) and a Rockefeller Foundation Award (1958), Cronin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His father is the Scottish novelist, A. J. Cronin.
Works
- The Golden Honeycomb: A Sicilian Quest (1954) ISBN 0-246-11125-9
- The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China (1955) ISBN 0-00-626749-1
- The Last Migration (1957) (on the Faiqani tribe of South Persia) ISBN 0-85617-608-7
- "T. S. Eliot as a Translator." T. S. Eliot: A Symposium for His Seventieth Birthday. Ed. Neville Braybrooke, 129-137 (1958) ISBN 0-900-39182-0
- A Pearl to India: The Life of Roberto de Nobili (1959) ISBN 0-246-63709-9
- The letter After Z (1960) (novel)
- Translator, L'Amour Profane by Alfred Kern (1961) (novel)
- A Calendar of Saints (1963)
- The Companion Guide to Paris (1963 - first edition) ISBN 0-00-613765-2
- Louis XIV (1964) ISBN 0-00-272072-8
- Translator, The Christian Centuries: A New History of the Catholic Church, Volume One: The First Six Hundred Years by Jean Danielou and Henri Marrou (1964) ISBN 0-232-35604-1
- Four Women in Pursuit of an Ideal (1965) (about Caroline de Berry, Marie D'Agoult, Eve Hanska and Marie Bashkirtseff; also published as The Romantic Way, 1966)
- Editor, The Sunday Times Travel and Holiday Guide (1966) (edited with Elizabeth Nicholas and Leonard Russell)
- The Florentine Renaissance (1967) ISBN 0-00-211262-0
- Mary Portrayed (1968) ISBN 0-87505-213-4
- "The Classical Ideal in Florence." Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XXXV: 23-39 (1969)
- Editor, The Companion Guide to the West Highlands of Scotland by W.H. Murray (1969) ISBN 0-13-154774-7
- The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969) ISBN 0-7126-9884-1
- Editor, The Companion Guide to the North Island of New Zealand by Errol Brathwaite (1970) ISBN 0-00-211139-X
- Napoleon (1971), ISBN 0-00-637521-9 (also published as Napoleon Bonaparte: An Intimate Biography, 1972, ISBN 0-688-00100-9)
- The Horizon Concise History of Italy (1972) ISBN 0-07-014477-X (also published as A Concise History of Italy, 1973, ISBN 0-304-29236-2)
- Louis and Antoinette (1974) ISBN 0-8095-9216-9
- Translator, Towards a New Democracy by Valery Giscard D'Estaing (1977) ISBN 0-00-216156-7
- Catherine, Empress of All the Russias (1978) ISBN 0-00-216119-2
- Editor, Essays by Divers Hands, Volume XL (1979) ISBN 0-85115-119-1
- Editor, The Companion Guide to Florence by Eve Borsook (1979) ISBN 0-00-216245-8
- The View from Planet Earth: Man Looks at the Cosmos (1981) ISBN 0-688-01479-8
- Paris on the Eve, 1900-1914 (1989) ISBN 0-312-04876-9
- The Renaissance (1992) ISBN 0-00-215411-0
- Paris: City of Light, 1919-1939 (1994) ISBN 0-00-215191-X
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Cronin, Vincent |
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Historian and Writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH |
May 24, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH |
Tredegar, Wales |
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