Norwich, John Julius (Cooper)

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NORWICH, John Julius (Cooper)

NORWICH, John Julius (Cooper). (Viscount Norwich). British, b. 1929. Genres: Architecture, Art/Art history, History, Travel/Exploration. Career: With H.M. Foreign Service, 1952-64: served in Belgrade, Beirut, and Geneva; First Secretary, Foreign Office, London, 1961-64. Publications: (with R. Sitwell) Mount Athos, 1966; The Normans in the South (in U.S. as The Other Conquest), 1967; Sahara, 1968; The Kingdom in the Sun, 1970; (ed.) Great Architecture of the World, 1975; Venice: The Rise to Empire, 1977; Christmas Crackers, 1980; Venice: The Splendour and the Fall, 1981; The Architecture of Southern England, 1985; Glyndebourne, 1985; Byzantium: The Early Centuries, 1988; More Christmas Crackers, 1990; Byzantium: The Apogee, 1991; Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, 1995; Shakespeare's Kings, 1999; Still More Christmas Crackers, 2000. Address: 24 Blomfield Rd, London W9 1AD, England. Online address: [email protected]