Richard Hamblyn

Richard Hamblyn (born 1965) is a British environmental writer and historian. He is a lecturer in the Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and has contributed articles and reviews to the ''Sunday Times'', ''The Guardian'', the ''Independent'', the ''Times Literary Supplement'' and the ''London Review of Books''.

His books include ''The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies'' (2001), an account of the life and work of Luke Howard which won a 2001 ''Los Angeles Times'' ''Book Prize'' and was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize; ''Terra: Tales of the Earth'' (2009), a study of natural disasters, a BBC Wales Science Book of the Year; and an anthology of science writing, ''The Art of Science: a Natural History of Ideas'' (2011). He has also written four illustrated books on weather in association with the UK Met Office, including ''The Cloud Book'' (2008); ''Extraordinary Clouds'' (2009); and ''Extraordinary Weather'' (2012), and edited Daniel Defoe's first book, ''The Storm'' (1704) for Penguin Classics'' ''(2005).'' ''Works written in collaboration with the British landscape photographer Jem Southam include ''Clouds Descending'' (2009) and ''The River in Winter'' (2012).

In the academic year 2008–09 Hamblyn was writer-in-residence at the University College London Environment Institute, and produced the book ''Data Soliloquies'' (Slade, 2009) with Martin John Callanan who was artist-in-residence for the same year. Provided by Wikipedia