William Dalrymple

William Dalrymple (born William Hamilton-Dalrymple on 20 March 1965) is a British historian, and writer, art historian and curator, as well as a prominent broadcaster and critic.

His books have won numerous awards including the Duff Cooper and the Wolfson Prize, and he has been 4 times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He is also one of the co-founders and co-directors of the annual Jaipur Literature Festival.

In 2012 he was appointed a Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in the Humanities by Princeton University.