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Name
  
Andrew Lycett

Role
  
Biographer

Education
  
Charterhouse School


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Nominations
  
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical

Books
  
Ian Fleming, Wilkie Collins: A Life of Se, The Man Who Created, Dylan Thomas, Rudyard Kipling

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Andrew Lycett is an English biographer and journalist.

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Lycett was educated at Charterhouse School and studied history at Christ Church, Oxford. He then worked for a while for The Times as a correspondent in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He has written several well-received biographies and he is best known for his biography of Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and he is a Fellow in 2014.

He currently lives and writes in London.

#JLF 2013: The Art of Biography


Books

Biographies
  • Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution, David Blundy and Lycett (Weidenfeld and Nicolson [W&N], 1987)
  • Ian Fleming (W&N, 1995); US title, Ian Fleming: The man behind James Bond (Turner Publishing, 1995)
  • From Diamond Sculls to Golden Handcuffs: A history of Rowe & Pitman (London: Robert Hale, 1999) – stockbrokers established by George D. Rowe and Frederick I. Pitman
  • Rudyard Kipling (W&N, 1999)
  • Dylan Thomas: A new life (W&N, 2003)
  • Conan Doyle: The man who created Sherlock Holmes (W&N, 2007); US title, The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The life and times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Free Press, 2007)
  • Wilkie Collins: A life of sensation (Hutchinson & Co., 2013)
    • Other
  • Barrack-Room Ballads, Rudyard Kipling (2001?) – an edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses (1892) annotated by Lycett
  • Kipling Abroad: Traffics and discoveries from Burma to Brazil, Rudyard Kipling, edited by Lycett (I.B. Tauris, 2010)

    • References

    Andrew Lycett Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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