Jonathan Miles

About The Author

Cultural historian Jonathan Miles was born in a trunk and has been traveling ever since. Educated in the United States, Canada, and the UK, he received his doctorate from Oxford University and has written major studies of British artists Eric Gill and David Jones. He is the author of The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera, St. Petersburg, The Nine Lives of Otto Katz, and The Wreck of the Medusa which is currently in preproduction for a Franco-American feature film. He divides his time between Paris and Italy.

Books by Jonathan Miles

The Once Upon a Time World

The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice*

Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Bald...

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St. Petersburg
Established in 1703 by the sheer will of its charismatic founder, the homicidal megalomaniac Peter the Great, St. Petersburg's dazzling yet unhinged reputation was quickly cemented by the sadistic dominion of its early rulers. This city, in its successive incarnations—St. Petersburg, Petrograd, L...

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