Vincent Cronin

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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 and his wife, Chantal, are long-time residents of both London and the Basse-Normandie region of France, and they have five children.

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 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. He is the son of the Scottish novelist, A.J. Cronin.

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• 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
• 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) 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
• 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, Royal Society of Literature: 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