William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, art historian, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
Dalrymple's books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński, the Arthur Ross Medal of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. From Wikipedia
