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John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire is a freelance writer living on Long Island. His most recent book is Unknown Quantity (John Henry Press). Born in Northampton, England, he studied mathematics at University College, London, and has worked in various countries as a computer programmer and systems consultant. He is the author of a novel (Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, 1996) and a spoken-language CD (36 Great American Poems, 2000). Currently a contributing editor at National Review and a twice-weekly columnist for National Review Online, he also contributes occasionally to The Washington Times, The Washington Post and various print and web magazines. Most of John’s journalism, as well as details of his current literary activities, can be found on his personal web site.

article archive

In that dawn | September 2009


A despot’s verse | March 2009

A review of The Poems of Mao Zedong, edited and translated by Willis Barnstone.


On being translated into Russian | February 2009

On the pleasures of fellowship at the margins of literary life.


Make way for bio-aesthetics | January 2009

On The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton


Hazlitt's philocaption: a very child in love | October 2008

On the writer's "inordinate love for another."

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books by author

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra

by John Derbyshire

$16.00

 

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blog article archive

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With friends like these-- | May 11, 2004 02:57 PM






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