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Vincent Cronin was a British historical, cultural and biographical writer best known for his biographies of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon, along with his books on the Renaissance.
Vincent Cronin was born on the 24th of May 1924, in Tredegar, Monmouthshire.
Vincent Cronin died on the 25th of January 2011, at his home in Marbella.
Vincent Cronin's father was A. J. Cronin, a Scottish physician and novelist, and his mother was May Gibson.
Vincent Cronin received the Richard Hillary Award, the W. H. Heinemann Award in 1955, and the Rockefeller Foundation Award in 1958.
Vincent Cronin's books sold well, but scholars did not always receive them warmly. Reviewer John T. Alexander called Cronin's Catherine, Empress of All the Russias a 'facile popularization.'