{"name": "Tom Holland", "bio": "Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League\u2019s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.", "personal_name": "Tom Holland", "alternate_names": ["Holland, Tom.", "Thomas Holland"], "remote_ids": {"viaf": "87342478", "wikidata": "Q1236243", "isni": "0000000117735394", "goodreads": "52292", "imdb": "nm2286597", "lc_naf": "nb2004033017", "opac_sbn": "CFIV333617", "gnd": "121205142", "isfdb": "2689", "musicbrainz": "650e9a0f-e31a-49b0-a97e-52d87a160f25", "bookbrainz": "331e6477-b88c-4851-856b-1a229ca0e191", "storygraph": "hollandtom-1-5202081", "amazon": "B000APEALK", "youtube": "@tomholland2059"}, "birth_date": "05 January 1968", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "photos": [14995063], "key": "/authors/OL1157403A", "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-04-30T02:41:46.523280"}}