Lacey Baldwin Smith
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Lacey Baldwin Smith is a historian and author specialising in the court of Henry VIII
and Elizabeth I
. Smith is the author of Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty and Catherine Howard
: A Tudor Tragedy among other books.
Smith has taught at Princeton University
, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Northwestern University
. He has received two Fulbright awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities
fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship
, and other awards. He lives in Illinois.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1972.
Henry VIII of England
Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
and Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
. Smith is the author of Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty and Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard , also spelled Katherine, Katheryn or Kathryn, was the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, and sometimes known by his reference to her as his "rose without a thorn"....
: A Tudor Tragedy among other books.
Smith has taught at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
and Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
. He has received two Fulbright awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
, and other awards. He lives in Illinois.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...
in 1972.
Published books
- Tudor Prelates and Politics, 1536-1558 (Princeton Studies in History. vol. 8.) (1953)
- Catherine Howard: A Tudor Tragedy
- The Elizabethan epic (1966)
- The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan World (1966; Reprinted as The Elizabethan World, 1973)
- Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty (1973)
- Elizabeth Tudor. Portrait of a Queen (1976)
- Dimensions of the Holocaust - A series of lectures presented at Northwestern University and coordinated by the *Department of History by Elie Wiesel and Lacey Baldwin Smith (1983)
- Treason in Tudor England: Politics & Paranoia" (1986)
- English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable (2007)
- This Realm of England 1399-1688