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Notable works. Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England. Notable awards. 2012 HW Fisher Prize. Thomas Penn (born 1974) is an English historian, author and editor. He is best known for his 2011 biography of King Henry VII of England, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, for which he won the HW Fisher Best First Biography prize and which was the ...

William Penn’s son Thomas Penn (1702–75), who was proprietor of Pennsylvania in 1737, hired the three fastest walkers in the colony and offered a large prize to the one who could cover the most land. The winner, running on a carefully cleared path, crossed more than twice the….

Thomas Penn (1702 –1775) was a son of William Penn, founder of the English North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The correspondence (1729–75) touches on nearly all aspects of colonial life.

H enry VII can look a dull king, so dull that Thomas Penn's title omits his name. Shakespeare, drawn to the colour on either side of the reign, skipped it. His history plays depicted the dramatic...

Birth Month. Zip Code. State. Thomas Penn is publishing director at Penguin Books UK. He holds a PhD in medieval history from Clare College, Cambridge University, and writes for The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the London Review of Books, among other publications.