Thomas Penn (historian)

Thomas Penn
Born1974
OccupationAuthor, Editor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
GenreHistory
Notable worksWinter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
Notable awards2012 HW Fisher Prize

Thomas Penn (born 1974) is an English historian, author and editor. He is best known for his 2011 biography of King Henry VII of England, Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England, for which he won the HW Fisher Best First Biography prize and which was the subject of a 2013 BBC documentary that he presented.

He is also the author of The Brothers York: An English Tragedy, published in October 2019.