Andrew Lycett

Andrew Michael Duncan Lycett (born 1948)[1][2] FRSL is an English biographer and journalist.

Early life

Born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to Peter Norman Lycett Lycett and Joan Mary Duncan (née Day), Lycett spent some of his childhood in Tanganyika,[3][4] where his father established a preparatory school, The Southern Highlands School.[5][6][7] Peter Lycett's mother was of the Burns-Lindow family of Ingwell and Ehen Hall, Cumbria.[8][9]

Lycett was educated at Charterhouse School and studied history at Christ Church, Oxford.

Career

Lycett worked for a while for The Times as a correspondent in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He has written several well-received biographies of literary figures, and is perhaps best known for his biography of Ian Fleming, first published in 1995. He has written more widely on the lives and work of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009[10] and he is a Fellow in 2014.[11]

He lives and writes in London.

Bibliography

Books

  • Blundy, David & Andrew Lycett (1987). Qaddhafi and the Libyan Revolution. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-29778-924-6.
  • Ian Fleming (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995) ISBN 9780297812999; US title, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond (Turner Publishing, 1995) ISBN 978-1-57036-343-6
  • From Diamond Sculls to Golden Handcuffs: A History of Rowe & Pitman (Robert Hale, 1998) ISBN 978-0-70906-301-8 – a history of the stockbroking firm established by George Duncan Rowe and Frederick I. Pitman
  • Rudyard Kipling (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999) ISBN 978-0-29781-907-3
  • Dylan Thomas: A New Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003) ISBN 978-0-29760-793-9
  • Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007) ISBN 978-0-29784-852-3; US title, The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Free Press, 2007) ISBN 978-0-74327-523-1
  • Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation (Hutchinson & Co., 2013) ISBN 978-0-09193-709-6
  • Conan Doyle's Wide World: Sherlock Holmes and Beyond (Tauris Parke, 2020) ISBN 978-1-78831-206-6
  • The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective (Frances Lincoln, 2023) ISBN 978-0-71128-167-7

as Editor

Book reviews

Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2013 Lycett, Andrew (8 February 2013). "Bonds Books". Reviews. The Times Literary Supplement. Glibert, Jon (2012). Ian Fleming : The Bibliography. London: Queen Anne Press. 2017 Lycett, Andrew (September 2017). "Stripping down the buttoned up". Reviews. History Today. 67 (9): 96. Hughes, Kathryn. Victorians undone : tales of the flesh in the age of decorum. Fourth Estate.

References

  1. ^ List of Members of the University of Oxford, University of Oxford, 1972, p. 394
  2. ^ "Lycett, Andrew 1948– | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  3. ^ "biographical - Andrew Lycett". www.andrewlycett.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Andrew Lycett - The Old Man & the Signorina". Literary Review.
  5. ^ The Public and Preparatory Schools Year Book, Year Book Press Ltd, 1954, p. 729
  6. ^ DC, Author georgia (4 February 2017). "Interview | Andrew Lycett, author". {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ "Andrew Lycett - Hard on Their Heels". Literary Review.
  8. ^ The Old Radleian 2017, Radleian Society, Radley School, p. 62
  9. ^ Burke's Family Index, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976, p. 93
  10. ^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature (RSL). Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010. Out of date.
  11. ^ "Current RSL Fellows" Archived October 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. RSL. Retrieved 9 April 2014.


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