Ray Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius for which he won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Award, and Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton.
Illuminating Nature You don't need to know your quantum physics to be gripped by Monk's doorstop study of the momentous life of J Robert Oppenheimer. Monk serves his subject well by sparing us neither the worst nor the best in him -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times An extraordinarily rich biography, superbly researched and written with impressive clarity. The Times [A] fine biography... Oppenheimer has already been served well by biographers. However, Monk here takes the scholarship to a new level BBC History Magazine Wonderful... Monk retells this great twentieth-century tragedy magnificently -- Ben Shephard Observer