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}}