James Moore (biographer)

James Richard Moore, historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin.^[1] As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography Darwin, and also writing The Darwin Legend, The Post Darwin Controversies, and many articles and reviews.

Publications

• Adrian Desmond; James Moore (1991), Darwin, Michael Joseph, Penguin Books 
• Adrian Desmond, James Moore & Janet Browne (2007), Charles Darwin, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-921354-2, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NUlWS8Gcj_0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=janet+browne&hl=en&ei=kFNTTOiwHILqvQP7sfUY&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false, retrieved 30 July 2010 
• Adrian Desmond; James Moore (2009), Darwin's Sacred Cause, Allen Lane, Penguin 

References

1. ^ Editorial Review (2008), "Darwin's Sacred Cause (book review)", Publishers Weekly 255 (48): 38, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=V9cGkBj_8iYC&dq=%22james+richard+moore%22&source=bl&ots=5Z2hzPTNPH&sig=1bYCimDAVHXDnMGEFlKNIop51pw&hl=en&ei=P21TTOvmBYeevQPeubEZ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA, retrieved 31 July 2010 

Sources

• Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
• The Darwin Legend, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2

External links

• SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media) Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore.
• Eden and Evolution, interview with James Moore and others.
• Darwin – A `Devil’s Chaplain’? (pdf)
• Moore and Darwin on In Our Time