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- Birth nameGeorge Robert Acworth Conquest
- Robert Conquest was born on July 15, 1917 in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Egyptologové (1974), Red Empire (1990) and The Book Programme (1973). He was married to Elizabeth Neece Wingate, Caroleen MacFarlane, Tatiana Mihailova and Joan Watkins. He died on August 3, 2015 in Palo Alto, California, USA.
- SpousesElizabeth Neece Wingate(1979 - August 3, 2015) (his death)Caroleen MacFarlane(1964 - 1978) (divorced)Tatiana Mihailova(1948 - 1962) (divorced)Joan Watkins(1942 - 1948) (divorced, 2 children)
- Historian.
- His mother was British and his father an American who served in World War II as an ambulance crew member.
- He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former president George W. Bush along with Aretha Franklin and Alan Greenspan in 2005.
- He was a communist while attending the University of Oxford in the late 1930s, but he quickly grew disenchanted with the ideology. He began his writing career as a poet.
- After the Cold War, and after a long ban on his works, his books on Stalin and the USSR were serialized or excerpted in Soviet publications.
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