Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson has written more than twenty-five books on an unusual range of subjects: science and the history of science; ancient scripts, writing systems and archaeological decipherment; and Indian history and culture. They include six biographies: of the physicist Albert Einstein (A Hundred Years of Relativity) and the polymath Thomas Young (The Last Man Who Knew Everything); of the decipherers Jean-Francois Champollion (Cracking the Egyptian Code) and Michael Ventris (The Man Who Deciphered Linear B); and of the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (The Myriad-Minded Man) and the Indian film director Satyajit Ray (The Inner Eye). His most recent books, The Indus: Lost Civilizations, Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization, and Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist, combine his interest in archaeology, history, India and science. He also writes on these subjects for leading magazines and newspapers, such as Nature and The Financial Times.