Writing · Novel
Born Jul 15, 1917
Active 1974–2015 · Awards: Michael Braude Award for Light Verse, Jefferson Lecture, Antonovych prize, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Dan David Prize, Fellow of the British Academy, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.