2014 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award Winner
Simon Schama
The Board of Trustees of the American Jewish Historical Society cordially invite you to the 2014 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award to honor award-winning author and historian Simon Schama. Simon Schama is a University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and a Contributing Editor of the Financial Times.
He is the author of sixteen books and the writer-presenter of more than forty documentaries on art, history, and literature for BBC2. His art criticism for The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Criticism in 1996. His film on Bernini from The Power of Art won an Emmy in 2007 and his series A History of Britain and The American Future: A History won Broadcast Critics Guild awards. He won the NCR nonfiction prize for Citizens, National Book Critics Circle Award for Rough Crossings, the WH Smith Literary Award for Landscape and Memory. He writes on cooking and food for GQ; fashion for Harper’s Bazaar; and on everything else for the FT. He curated the Government Art Collection show Travelling Light at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and has collaborated with Anslem Keifer, John Virtue, and Cecile B. Evans on contemporary art exhibitions and installations.
