Stephen R. Platt
Stephen R. Platt is an award-winning historian of China and the West. His books include Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Knopf, 2012), which won the Cundill History Prize, and Imperial Twilight (Knopf, 2018), shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. Platt teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and holds a PhD in History from Yale. He lives with his family in Northampton, MA.