CURRICULUM VITAE

Adam Zamoyski was born in New York in 1949 and brought up in England, with long spells in various European countries. He was educated at Downside School and The Queen's College, Oxford. He speaks Polish, French, English, Russian and Italian. He lives in London, where he works as a freelance historian, but spends much time in Poland.

Zamoyski's family originates in Poland. His parents left the country when the Germans invaded in 1939, and were stranded in exile when the Soviets took over their homeland at the end of World War II. Drawn to it as much by his interest in the historical processes at work there as by family ties, Zamoyski began to visit Poland in the late 1960s.

His first book, published in 1979, was Chopin. A Biography, which was translated into French and Polish, and has been recognized as the standard work on the life of the composer. He followed this up with a biography of the pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski, an account of the Polish-Bolshevik war of 1920, and then The Polish Way: A Thousand-year History of the Poles and Their Culture, which featured in the British best-seller lists for several weeks and has never been out of print. Subsequent works include The Last King of Poland, a life of king Stanisław Augustus, and The Forgotten Few, a history of the Polish Air Force in World War II. His latest books are Holy Madness. Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871, a study of Romantic nationalism, and 1812. Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow.

Below is a list of Adam Zamoyski's published works

 BOOKS:

Chopin, A New Biography
Collins, London 1979; hardback.
Doubleday, New York 1980; hardback.
Granada, London 1981; paperback.
Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1985; hardback.
Librairie Académique Perrin, Paris 1986; hardback.
Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1989 (2nd Ed.); hardback.
Świat Książki, Warsaw 1997; hardback.                                                              Znak, Krakow, 2002, paperback

The Battle for the Marchlands, A history of the 1920 Polish-Soviet War
East European Monographs, Boulder 1981; hardback.

Paderewski, A Biography
Collins, London 1982; hardback.
Atheneum, New York 1982; hardback.
Javier Vergara, Buenos Aires 1986; paperback.
Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1992; hardback, reprinted 1993.

The Polish Way, A Thousand-year history of the Poles and their Culture
John Murray, London 1987; hardback. Reprinted: 1987, 1987, 1987, 1988.
Franklin Watts, New York 1988; hardback. Reprinted: 1988, 1989, 1989, 1990.
John Murray, London 1989; paperback.
John Murray, London 1990 (2nd Ed.); paperback, reprinted 1992, 1994, 1997.
Hippocrene Books, New York, 1994; paperback, reprinted 1996, 1999.          Znak, Krakow, 2002 (under the title Wlasna Droga)

The Last King of Poland
Jonathan Cape, London 1992; hardback.
Arx Regia, Warsaw 1994; hardback.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1997; hardback.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1998; paperback.

The Forgotten Few.The Polish Air Force in the Second World War
John Murray, London, 1995; hardback.
Hippocrene, New York, 1996; hardback, reprinted 2000.
Puls, London 1995; paperback. (under Polish title: Zapomniane Dywizjony, Losy wojenne lotników polskich)                                                                          Pen & Sword, London 2004, hardback                                                 Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow 2004, paperback (under the title: Orly nad Europa).

Holy Madness. Romantics, Patriots & Revolutionaries 1776-1871
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1999; hardback.
Viking, New York, 2000, hardback.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 2001; paperback.
Penguin Books, New York, 2001, paperback.

Poland. A Treveller's Gazetteer
John Murray, London 2001.

The Czartoryski Museum
Azimuth Editions, London 2001

1812. Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow                                         HarperCollins, London 2004, hardback                                               HarperCollins, New York, 2004, hardback (under the title: Moscow 1812. Napoleon's Fatal March).

ESSAYS, ARTICLES & MONOGRAPHS

Napoleon's Polish Aide-de-Camp, History Today, July 1973.
The Underground Factory: Poland in 1939-45, History Today, December 1974.
The Jews in Poland, 1264-1795, History Today, February 1976.
The Jews in Poland, 1795-1939, History Today, March 1976.
Chopin the Tone-Poet, Programme notes, Aldeburgh Festival 1980.
Polish Renaissance Palaces, Country Life, May 1988.                                        Six entries in the Penguin Opera Guide.
States of Mind: Poland and Ireland, Encounter, July/August 1989.
Polish-Turkish Cultural Affinities, Turquoise, No.5, Winter 1989-90.
The Political Vision of Stanisław Augustus, in Exhibition Catalogue, Treasures of a Polish King, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1992.
Polish Hunting in the Past, Country Life, July 1992.
Polish Villas, Country Life, July 1993.
Działalność Edwarda Raczyńskiego w okresie powojennym, in Działalność dyplomatyczna i polityczna Edwarda Raczyńskiego, Łódź 1994.
Nine entries in the Macmillan Dictionary of Art, London 1996.
King Stanisław II Augustus, in Exhibition catalogue Polens letzter Konig un seine Maler, Neue Pinakothek, Munchen 1995.
The Art of the Possible in Constitution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Poland. The Constitution of 3 May 1791, ed. Samuel Fiszman, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 1997.
Okres Hotelu Lambert, chapter in Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich, Kraków, 1998.
Poland's Parliamentary Tradition, Wydawnictwa Sejmowe, Warsaw 1997.
The History of Poland in the 16th-18th centuries, in Land of the Winged Horsemen. Art in Poland 1572-1764, Jan K. Ostrowski ed., Alexandria, Va, 1999.
Chopin. Duch Romantyzmu in Romantyzm: Malarstwo w Czasach Fryderyka Chopina, Warsaw 1999.

Napoleon Triumphs in Russia, in What Might Have Been, ed. by Andrew Roberts, London 2004

EDITIONS:

Hieronym Florian Radziwiłł, Rzeczy którymi najgodniejszego mogę zabawić gościa, ed. & introduced by Adam Zamoyski, Twój Styl Editions, Warsaw 1999.

TRANSLATIONS:

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Charcoal Sketches and Other Tales, Angel Books, London 1990; hardback.
Angel Books, London 1991; paperback.

JOURNALISM:

Principal feature articles:
Poland's ghosts haunt visit by the Pope, The Sunday Telegraph, 31 May 1987.
Why TV doesn't give a true picture, The Sunday Telegraph, 30 August 1987.
No More Betrayals of Eastern Europe, The Sunday Telegraph, 27 August 1989.
Une nouvelle donnée pour la politique polonaise, Libération, 25 April 1990.
Who Are the Racists Now?, The Spectator, 21 May 1994.
Warsaw's Doomed Rebellion, The Australian, 1 August 1994.
These Absurd Celebrations, The Spectator, 6 May 1995.

Adam Zamoyski has also contributed feature articles to the following papers and periodicals:

The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, The Art Newspaper, The Australian, Tatler, Departures, Country Life, Event,  Apollo, Harpers & Queen.

Wiadomości, Tydzień Polski, Dziennik Polski.

And  book reviews to the following:

The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The European, The Evening Standard, The Catholic Herald, The Spectator, The Literary Review, Books & Bookmen, Wiadomości.

Adam Zamoyski has given lectures and seminars to the following:

1982: Friends of Polish Art, Detroit, Mich; Detroit Opera Society, Detroit, Mich.; Polish Arts Club, Chicago, Ill.; Polish Arts Institute, Baltimore, Ma.

1985: Cercle Montherlant, Paris; Société Littéraire, Toulouse.

1987: Anglo-Byelorussian Society, London.; North London Polytechnic; Strathclyde University, Glasgow; Convention of American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs, Ypsilanti, Mich. 

1988: North London Polytechnic; Warsaw University ; National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh; U.S. lecture tour (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities): Harvard Club, New York, N.Y.; Polish Arts Club, Baltimore, Ma.; University of Miami, Miami, Fl.; University of South Florida, Clearwater, Fl.; Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Fl.; Polish Insitute, Stamford, Ct.; University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y.; Polish Heritage Club, Syracuse, N.Y.; St. John Fisher College, Rochester, N.Y.; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Oh.; Friends of Polish Art, Detroit, Mich.; Polish National Alliance Headquarters, Chicago, Ill.; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wis.; Polish American Culture Institute, Minneapolis, Minn.; Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, Ca.; Stanford University, Ca; Chopin Foundation, San Francisco, Ca.   

1989: Polish Ex-Combattants Association, Bedford; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

1990: Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

1991:Paderewski Anniversary Celebration, Chicago, Ill. (sponsored by National Endowment for the Humantities); Polish Educational Society Seminar, London; Polish Embassy London; Polish Cultural Institute, London; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw.

1992: International Colloquium, 'Les Tribus ou l'Europe', Palais de Chaillot, Paris; Aylesbury High School; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

1993: The Times/Charter 88 Monarchy Debate; pannelist; Polish Social & Cultural Centre (POSK), London; Polish Library, London; Association of Polish Students Summer Camp, Penrhos.

1994: The Polish Social & Cultural Centre (POSK), London; The Historical Association, London.

1995: Festival of Polish Art, South Australia; University of Adelaide, South Australia; Polish Embassy, Canberra; Tobruk Club, Canberra; Australian Institute of Polish Studies, Melbourne; Society of Friends of Polish History, Warsaw; University of Strathclyde, Polonia Lecture.

1996: Kosciuszko Foundation, New York; Polish Embassy, Washington; Polish Heritage Society, Philadelphia; Copernicus Center, Chicago; Polish American Congress, Chicago; Polish cultural Society, St Louis; Polish Arts Club, Detroit; Nowy Dziennik Gallery, New York; College d'Europe, Warsaw, Natolin.

1997: Cambridge University Central European Society.

1998: College d'Europe, Warsaw, Natolin.

1999: Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Czartoryski Foundation, Kraków; Chicago Humanities Festival; Kreeger Museum, Washington DC.

2000: Kościuszko Foundation, New York; American University, Washington; Bletchley Park.

2001: Tunbridge School; International Women's Group, Warsaw; Polonia Academy, Czestochowa.

2002: American Council for Polish Culture Convention, Krakow; Milwaukee Art Museum; Chicago Humanities Festival.

2003: Sheffield Literature Festival

 2004: Oxford Festival of Literature; Cheltenham Literary Festival; Hay-on-Wye Festival of Literature; Edinburgh Festival of Literature; Cambridge History Festival; Nexus Conference, Warsaw; Bibliotheque Polonaise, Paris