Simon Sebag Montefiore is a preeminent British historian and award-winning author celebrated for his sweeping narrative histories. Best known for works like “The World: A Family History of Humanity,” “Jerusalem,” and “The Romanovs,” he is an authority on power and global lineage. His meticulously researched biographies of Stalin earned him the Costa Biography Award and the British Book Award. As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, his expertise spans centuries of human history.