Editing Ray Monk (section)

==Biography==

Monk graduated with an [[M.A.]] in Philosophy from the [[University of York]] in 1979. Later he obtained an [[Master of Letters|MLitt]] from the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name="auto"/>

He won the 1990 [[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]] and the 1991 [[Duff Cooper Prize]] for his acclaimed biography of [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], ''Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius''. His two-volume biography of [[Bertrand Russell]] appeared in 1996 and 2001. His biography of [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]] was published in 2012.

Since 2012 he has occasionally written for the ''[[New Statesman]]'', contributing articles on philosophers and on [[veganism]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/writers/318837|title=Writers|website=www.newstatesman.com|language=en|access-date=2018-05-01}}</ref><ref>[https://www.southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/news/2017/11/08-ray-monk-on-veganism-in-the-new-statesman.page "Ray Monk on veganism in the New Statesman"]. [[University of Southampton]].</ref>

In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/ray-monk/|title=Ray Monk|website=Royal Society of Literature|date=September 2023 }}</ref>