Andrew Lycett

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Name Andrew Lycett Role Biographer		Education Charterhouse School

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.

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.

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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)

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Andrew Lycett Wikipedia

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