Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the editor of The Oxford Illustrated History of the World. His books include Pathfinders (winner of the World History Association Book Prize), Food: A History (winner of the IACP Prize), Columbus (shortlisted for the NCR Book Award), and Millennium, on which CNN based a ten-part television series. He has won Spain’s national prizes for geography and food-writing, and holds the Gran Cruz de Alfonso el Sabio, the country’s highest award for services to education, science, and culture. He lives in Indiana and occupies the William P. Reynolds Chair in the history department at the University of Notre Dame.