Mary Beard

Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.

Mary Beard

Mary Beard is the author of the best-selling The Fires of Vesuvius and the National Book Critics Circle Award–nominated Confronting the Classics and SPQR. A popular blogger and television personality, Beard is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. She lives in England.

Awards

Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2015

Shortlisted — Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2015

Books by Mary Beard

  • The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

    Plutarch, James Romm, Pamela Mensch, Mary Beard

    Hardback, 2017

    An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
  • The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

    Plutarch, James Romm, Pamela Mensch, Mary Beard

    Paperback, 2018

    An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
  • The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives

    Plutarch, James Romm, Pamela Mensch, Mary Beard

    E Book, 2017

    An outstanding new edition of Plutarch, the inventor of biography, focused on five lives that remade the Roman world.
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession

    Leo Tolstoy, Peter Carson, Mary Beard

    E Book, 2013

    A pairing of Tolstoy’s most spiritual and existential works of fiction and nonfiction from the renowned translator of Turgenev and Chekhov.