Ocupation: Writer
Life: b. March 17, 1933
Birthday: March 17
I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
source: "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2001.
topic: Science, Past, Aspect, Archaeology, Recent Past