Lynn H. Nicholas

Lynn H. Nicholas is an American author and art historian born in New London, Connecticut, educated in the U.S. England, and Spain, including a B.A. from Oxford University, and formerly worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. Penguin Random House. She is best known for her seminal work The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (1994), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction and inspired a 2006 documentary, and Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web (2005); her achievements include the Légion d'Honneur from France and Amicus Poloniae from Poland. GBH.