In 2013, Penn presented an hour-long television documentary based on his book on BBC Two. Penn was awarded the HW Fisher Best First Biography prize by the Biographers' Club in 2012 for Winter King. The expressive and evocative power of his writing, and the union of scholarship with artistry, are rare in modern historical writing". Reviewing it for The Guardian, Blair Worden wrote: "If Penn's interpretation can sometimes seem slanted, its exposition would be hard to over-praise. Historian Helen Castor reviewed it for The Telegraph, writing: "In broad outline, this is not a new story – but, in Penn's hands, it is a revelation.Penn has pulled off a rare feat: a brilliant and haunting evocation of the Tudor world, with irresistible echoes of the age of fear in which we now live". Penn's first book, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, was published by Penguin Books in 2011 and is an account of the life of King Henry VII of England. He played for the Authors XI amateur cricket team, which is composed of British writers, during its first two seasons and he contributed a chapter to the team's book about their first season playing together, The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon (Bloomsbury, 2013). In addition to his writing, he is the editorial director of Penguin Press UK. in medieval history from Clare College, Cambridge. He is also the author of The Brothers York: An English Tragedy, published in October 2019. He is best known for his 2011 biography of King Henry VII of England, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, for which he won the HW Fisher Best First Biography prize and which was the subject of a 2013 BBC documentary that he presented. ’A masterpiece.Thomas Penn (born 1974) is an English historian, author and editor. Now, his elder son is to marry, in a wedding upon which the fate of the country, and the entire Tudor dynasty, will hang … Henry VII has won the throne of England through luck, guile and ruthlessness. ’Imagine Wolf Hall rewritten by John le Carré … gripping … a rare achievement’ Tom Holland, Guardian SPECTATOR, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE
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