James Moore (biographer)
{{Short description|Author of biographies of Charles Darwin (born 1947)}}
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James Richard Moore is a historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin.{{citation |date=2008 |author=Editorial Review |title=Darwin's Sacred Cause (book review) |journal=Publishers Weekly |volume=255 |issue=48 |page=38 |isbn=978-0547055268 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9cGkBj_8iYC&q=%22james+richard+moore%22|access-date=31 July 2010}} As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography Darwin, and also writing The Darwin Legend, The Post-Darwinian Controversies, and many articles and reviews.
Publications
- James Moore. (1979). The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900, Cambridge University Press
- {{citation|year=1991|author1=Adrian Desmond|author2=James Moore|title=Darwin|publisher=Michael Joseph, Penguin Books}}
- {{citation |year=2007 |author=Adrian Desmond, James Moore & Janet Browne |title=Charles Darwin |place=Oxford and New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-921354-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUlWS8Gcj_0C&q=janet+browne |access-date=30 July 2010}}
- {{citation|year=2009|title=Darwin's Sacred Cause|author1=Adrian Desmond|author2=James Moore|publisher=Allen Lane, Penguin}}
Notes
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References
- Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, {{ISBN|0-14-013192-2}}
- The Darwin Legend, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, {{ISBN|0-340-64243-2}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061002124015/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/index.shtml SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media)] Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore.
- [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020300822_pf.html Eden and Evolution], interview with James Moore and others.
- {{cite web|url=http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf|title=Darwin – A 'Devil's Chaplain'?|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080227014518/http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf|archive-date=February 27, 2008}} (pdf)
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/darwin/inourtime.shtml Moore and Darwin] on In Our Time
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Category:James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients
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