John Guy (born 1949 in Warragul, Australia) is a leading British historian and biographer.
Originally born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII, School, Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read History
taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey Rudolph Elton. He was awarded a Greene Cup by Clare College and the Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge.
He is a Tudor history specialist and has written extensively on the subject. His books have been critically acclaimed with his most recent work, My Heart is My Own: the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, being awarded the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award.
His style is one of re-assessment and evaluation and his works often involve him re-telling and re-evaluating history from a completely different angle.
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