Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah) was born on May 8th, 1954 and is currently 72 years old. Kwame Anthony Appiah was born in London, England. Appiah attended Clare College, Cambridge where he received a BA (First Class) and a PhD degree in philosophy.

Kwame Anthony Appiah is best known as a cultural theorist and philosopher who has written on everything from intellectual history, identity, philosophy of mind and language, and political philosophy.

After completing his studies, Appiah went on to teach at Harvard, Yale, Duke, and Cornell Universities before he moved to Princeton. At Princeton, he worked at several departments including the Departments of Politics, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and the Center for African American Studies among several other departments.

He decided to leave his employment at Princeton in 2014 and took up a job as a professor of law and philosophy at New York University so that he could be close to his partner. Henry Finder his spouse was then working at The New Yorker as an editorial director.

Over the years, Kwame Anthony Appiah has written many very popular books. His works have been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, French, Italian, and German among several other languages.

In 2010, he was named one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy. Two years later, Barack Obama, the American President granted him the National Humanities Medal.

In 1990, Kwame Anthony Appiah published his first fiction workAvenging Angel. The novel tells the story of a secret society from Cambridge known as The Apostles, who are being poisoned by some unknown person. Several members of the society have been felled by some potent neurotoxins with the killers leaving behind cryptic death notes. The problem is that there are so many people who could have a motive that it would be almost impossible to sift and narrow down to the real suspects.

In Another Death in Venice, Kwame Anthony Appiah tells the story of Sir Patrick Scot the amateur sleuth and well-known barrister, and his wife who are traveling to Venice on the Orient Express. They arrive to delicious meals and effortless hospitality from their host and could not have been happier until an Australian acquaintance they made on the Orient Express is found dead in one of the canals. Sir Patrick loves detective work but this one may be too sinister for him, even though he has never been one to give up.

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