Biography
DiCamillo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Merion, Pennsylvania, and Clermont, Florida. As of 2012, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts. His sister is children's book author Kate DiCamillo.
DiCamillo is an authority on the British country house and has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad on the subject and taught classes on British culture, art, and architecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since 1999 he has maintained an award-winning website, The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses, that seeks to document every English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish country house ever built, standing or demolished, together with a history of the families who lived in the houses, the architects who designed them, and the history of the houses' collections and gardens. In recognition of his work DiCamillo has been presented to the late Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and The Prince of Wales.
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