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3 unusual facts about Rebecca Stott


Peter Boston

One of Boston's creations, the house he designed in 1959 for artist Elisabeth Vellacott, sister of classical scholar Philip Vellacott, served as the basis of the home in Rebecca Stott's 2007 novel Ghostwalk.

Rebecca Stott

In 2012 she published an epic account of the history of evolution before Darwin which documents a 2,200 year history, a tale of heretics and free thinkers who were prepared to risk public censure or even imprisonment by asking questions that challenged religious orthodoxies.

The New York Times compared it to the works of Borges and Edgar Allan Poe.



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