Occupation Writer Name John Lewis-Stempel | Role Author | |
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Books Meadowland: The Private Life of an, Six Weeks: The Short and Galla, The War Behind the Wire: The, The Wild Life: A Year of Living, Foraging: The Essential | ||
Meadowland by john lewis stempel published by transworld
John Lewis-Stempel (born 1967) is an English farmer, writer, and Sunday Times Top 5 best selling author. He was born in Herefordshire, where his family have lived for over 700 years.
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- Meadowland by john lewis stempel published by transworld
- Hay festival john lewis stempel goes wild about foraged food
- Career
- Awards
- Personal life
- References
Hay festival john lewis stempel goes wild about foraged food
Career
He has written on a range of subjects from Native Americans to Fatherhood, but specialises in military history and natural history under his family name. He is a former columnist for The Sunday Express (for which he still writes features), and currently a columnist for Country Life. His column on nature and farming in Country Life won him Magazine Columnist of the Year in the 2016 BSME Awards.
Lewis-Stempel's book Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field won the Thwaites Wainwright Prize and was also short-listed for BBC Countryfile's Country Book of the Year 2014. In 2016 The Running Hare was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Sunday Times best seller, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Wainwright Prize, The Richard Jefferies Society Prize and the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award. He won the 2017 Wainwright Prize with another shortlisted book, Where Poppies Blow, about British soldiers and their relationship with nature in World War I
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Personal life
Lewis-Stempel lives on a farm in Herefordshire with his wife Penelope and their children Tristram and Freda.