Gordon Kerr
(1952)
İskoç tarihçi ve yazar.
1952 yılında East Kilbride’da (İskoçya) doğmuştur.
Çocukluğu ve gençliği East Kilbride’da geçmiş, Glasgow Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Tarihi bölümünden mezun olduktan sonra Fransa’da yaşamıştır.
Londra’da on sekiz yıl şarap ticareti ile uğraştıktan sonra kitapçılık ve yayıncılık yapmıştır.
Sonrasında da bütün işlerini bırakarak kendini yazılarına vermiş, şarap, tarih, biyografi, gerçek suç, mizah, sanat, şiir ve seyahat türlerinde kitaplar kaleme almıştır.
Halen İngiltere Hampshire’da zaman zaman da güneybatı Fransa’da yaşamaktadır.
Eserleri
- 1995 Wave Propagation in Layered Anisotropic Media: With Application to Composites (İnceleme)
- 2000 Rats and Squealers (İnceleme)
- 2006 Love Stories (Roman)
- 2006 Poetry Writers’ Yearbook (İnceleme)
- 2007 Keeping Chickens: An Australian Guide (İnceleme, Nicolas Brasch ile birlikte)
- 2007 Killers in Cold Blood (İnceleme)
- 2007 The Timetraveller’s Guide to Georgian London (İnceleme)
- 2008 Art Nouveau (İnceleme)
- 2008 Australian Slang (İnceleme)
- 2008 Hotels of Death: The Famous Checked In But Never Checked Ou (İnceleme)
- 2008 Houses of Death, Horrific Secrets Behind Closed Doors (İnceleme)
- 2008 Impressionists (İnceleme)
- 2008 Pirates: Derring-do on the High Seas (İnceleme)
- 2008 Professional Killers (İnceleme)
- 2008 Time Line, History Of The World (İnceleme, Timeline of World History, 2011)
- 2008 Timeline of Britain (İnceleme)
- 2008 Timeline of Kings & Queens : From Charlemagne to Elizabeth II (İnceleme)
- 2009 A Short History of Europe: From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon (İnceleme, Avrupa’nın Kısa Tarihi, Charlemagne’dan Lizbon Antlaşması’na, Çev. Cumhur Atay, Kalkedon Yayınları, 2011)
- 2009 Evil Psychopaths (İnceleme)
- 2009 Fugitives from Justice : Audacious Bids for Freedom (İnceleme)
- 2009 Goners: The Final Hours of the Notable and Notorious (İnceleme)
- 2009 Leaders Who Changed the World (İnceleme)
- 2009 More Softies: 22 New Friends for You to Sew and Crochet (İnceleme)
- 2009 Timeline of the Sixties (İnceleme)
- 2010 Great British Losers: A Compendium of National Embarrassments from the Great Auk to Eddie the Eagle (İnceleme)
- 2010 My Sweet Rose (İnceleme)
- 2010 Secrets of Italy (İnceleme)
- 2011 100 Claude Monet Masterpieces (İnceleme)
- 2011 100 Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces (İnceleme)
- 2011 A Short History of Africa: From the Origins of the Human Race to the Arab Spring (İnceleme, Kısa Afrika Tarihi, Çev. Mihriban Doğan, Say yayınları, 2021)
- 2011 American Serial Killers – They just can’t stop themselves (İnceleme)
- 2011 Ancient and Medieval Traitors: Back-stabbers, Turncoats and Conspirators (True Crime) (İnceleme)
- 2011 Australian Serial Killers (İnceleme)
- 2011 Bound for Africa (İnceleme)
- 2011 European Serial Killers – Evil on the edge of society (İnceleme)
- 2011 Fugitives on the Run : Keeping Ahead of Retribution (İnceleme)
- 2011 Fugitives: Dramatic accounts of life on the run (İnceleme)
- 2011 Great Leaders of the 19th Century: Heroes, Outlaws and Demagogues (İnceleme)
- 2011 Great Leaders of the Last 100 Years: A Century that Changed the World (İnceleme)
- 2011 Great Leaders Who Changed the Ancient World: Philosophers, Prophets and Commanders (İnceleme)
- 2011 Great Leaders who Changed the Medieval World – Emperors, Tyrants and Saints (İnceleme)
- 2011 Historic Leaders who Changed the World: Monarchs, Presidents and Despots (İnceleme)
- 2011 Hostages and Hijackers (İnceleme, Phil Clarke ile birlikte)
- 2011 Kidnapped! Abduction, Hostages and Hijacking (İnceleme, Phil Clarke ile birlikte)
- 2011 Insane Body Snatchers: Kidnapping, Torture and Sexual Abuse (İnceleme, Phil Clarke ile birlikte)
- 2011 Mafia Men: Hoodwinkers, suckers and scams (İnceleme)
- 2011 Mapping the Trail of a Crime: How Experts Use Geographic Profiling to Solve the World’s Most Notorious Cases (İnceleme)
- 2011 Notorious Fugitives : Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide (İnceleme)
- 2011 Spree Killers: Ruthless Perpetrators of Mass Murder (İnceleme)
- 2011 Submission (Roman)
- 2011 Timeline of India: From Ancient Civilization to World Power and Economic Miracle (İnceleme)
- 2011 Traitors and Spies: Spooks, Sleepers and Sabotage (İnceleme)
- 2011 Treacherous Women – Sex, Temptation and Betrayal (İnceleme)
- 2011 World Serial Killers: Manson, Bundy, Olson, Sells, Son of Sam, Kemper, Stayner, Jack the Ripper, Brady, Hindley, West, Shipman, Glover, Dupas, Cooke, Denyer, Barraza, Lopez: They Kill for the Thrill (İnceleme)
- 2012 Art Deco Fashion Masterpieces (İnceleme)
- 2012 College Killers : School Shootings in North America and Europe – Columbine, Jonesboro, Bath, Thurston, Red Lake, Virginia, Pontiac’s Rebellion, Texas Tower, Beslan, Erfurt, Dunblane (İnceleme)
- 2012 Mad Dogs: The Most Vicious Men Who Ever Lived (İnceleme)
- 2012 The Queen: Secrets & Celebrations of Her Majesty (İnceleme)
- 2013 A Short History of China: From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse (İnceleme, Kısa Çin Tarihi, Çev. Şükrü Alpagut, Say yayınları, 2021)
- 2013 Book of Firsts: First Time Almost Everything Happened (İnceleme)
- 2013 Breakout: The Great Prison Escapes – Alcatraz, Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Bundy, Biggs and the Great Train Robbery, Texas Seven, Blake, Hinds, Sheppard, Ramensky, Billy Hayes, Dengler (İnceleme)
- 2013 Timeline of the Popes: A History from St Peter to Francis I – Rome, Vatican, Catholic, Cardinal, Papal Election, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI (İnceleme)
- 2014 A Short History of Brazil: From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle (İnceleme)
- 2014 A Short History of the First World War: Land, Sea & Air, 1914-1918 (İnceleme)
- 2014 Best-Kept Secrets of Italy (İnceleme)
- 2014 Bitter Days Behind: Jamaican Poetry (İnceleme, Therese Morris Edwards ile birlikte)
- 2014 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (İnceleme)
- 2014 Cthulhu: Dark Fantasy, Horror & Supernatural Movies (İnceleme)
- 2015 A Short History of the Vietnam War (İnceleme)
- 2015 Best-Kept Secrets of Europe (İnceleme)
- 2016 A Short History of the Middle East : From Ancient Empires to Islamic State (İnceleme)
- 2016 The Godsplice (İnceleme)
- 2017 A Short History of India: From the Earliest Civilisations and Myriad Kingdoms, to Today’s Economic Powerhouse (İnceleme)
- 2018 Are You Smarter Than a Baby Boomer? (İnceleme)
- 2018 Are You Smarter Than a Millennial? (İnceleme)
- 2019 A Short Introduction to Religion (İnceleme, Kısa Dinler Tarihi, Çev. Berna Asuman Uzun, Say yayınları, 2023)
- 2019 Short History of the Victorian Era (İnceleme)
- 2019 The Partisan Heart (Roman)
- 2020 The War that Never Ended: A Short History of the Korean War (İnceleme)
- 2021 A Short History of Coffee (İnceleme)
- 2022 British Traitors: Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century (İnceleme)
- 2025 The 1960s | Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See a Turbulent Decade (İnceleme)
- 2026 A War Without Mercy: A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (İnceleme)
Hazırlama: 21.02.2024
Son Güncelleme: 25.06.2026
Kaynaklar
- “Q&A with Gordon Kerr, author of The Partisan Heart” Hannah Bickerton, wearewhitefox.com (Erişim: 25.06.2026)
- “Gordon Kerr” simonandschuster.com (Erişim: 25.06.2026)
- “Spotlight: Gordon Kerr” Elen Lewis, 26.org.uk (Erişim: 25.06.2026)
- “Gordon Kerr” booknotification.com (Erişim: 25.06.2026)
- “Books by Gordon Kerr” goodreads.com (Erişim: 25.06.2026)