Jonathan Beckman is a British journalist and historian. He was educated at Cambridge University and the University of London. He is best known for his book How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair, which received widespread critical acclaim.[1][2][3][4] It won Beckman the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction.
He has worked at the Literary Review and the Economist magazine.[5]
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