Education
He was educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome.
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He was educated at the universities of Durham, London, and Rome.
He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for The Observer, Punch, The Spectator and The New York Times. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities, which has resulted in books and television documentaries. In June 1997, Watson became a research associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge.
He has published thirteen books, including The German Genius, published by Simon & Schuster in 2010.
Landscape of Lies (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries). New York: Felony & Mayhem Press. Watson, Peter (2000).
A Terrible Beauty: the People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind. Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Watson, Peter (2001). The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century.
Harper Perennial. Ideas: a History from Wittgenstein to the World Wide Web.
2 vols, London: The Folio Society. Watson, Peter (1998). Sotheby"s: The Inside Story.
New York: Random House.
. Watson, Peter (1989). Wisdom and Strength, the Biography of a Renaissance Masterpiece.
New York: Doubleday. X. Watson, Peter (1984).
The Caravaggio Conspiracy. New York: Penguin/Doubleday. Watson, Peter (1978).
War on the Mind: the Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology. New York: Basic Books.
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Watson was deputy editor of New Society, and was for four years a member of the Insight team at The Sunday Times.