Jonathan Beckman is a British journalist and historian.
He was educated at Cambridge University and the University of London.
He is best known for his book How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette and the Diamond Necklace Affair, which received widespread critical acclaim.
[1][2][3][4] It won Beckman the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction.
He has worked at the Literary Review and the Economist magazine.