Andrew Michael Duncan Lycett (born 1948)

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is an English biographer and journalist.

Early life

Born at

Stamford, Lincolnshire Stamford is a town and civil parish in the South Kesteven District of Lincolnshire, England. The population at the 2011 census was 19,701 and estimated at 20,645 in 2019. The town has 17th- and 18th-century stone buildings, older timber-framed ...

to Peter Norman Lycett Lycett and Joan Mary Duncan (née Day), Lycett spent some of his childhood in

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, where his father established a preparatory school, The Southern Highlands School. Peter Lycett's mother was of the Burns-Lindow family of Ingwell an
Ehen Hall

Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...

. Lycett was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and studied history at

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ...

Career

Lycett worked for a while for ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...

'' 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 Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer who is best known for his postwar ''James Bond'' series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., a ...

, ''Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond''. He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Literature The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". A charity that represents the voice of literature in the UK, th ...

in 2009 and he is a Fellow in 2014. He lives and writes in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

Bibliography

Books

* * * ''Ian Fleming'' (W&N, 1995); US title, ''Ian Fleming: The man behind James Bond'' (

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, 1995) * ''From Diamond Sculls to Golden Handcuffs: A history of

Rowe & Pitman Rowe & Pitman was once one of the largest British stockbrokers. History The firm was founded in London in 1895 by stockbrokers George Duncan Rowe and Fred Pitman. It was known in the city as "R & P". In the 1950s, two of the firm's biggest client ...

'' (London: Robert Hale, 1999) – stockbrokers established by

George Duncan Rowe George Duncan Rowe (1857–1934) was a British stockbroker, and the co-founder of Rowe & Pitman, with Frederick I. Pitman. Life He was the born in Valparaíso, Chile, the son of Charles Rowe, a Liverpool shipowner. s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Mem ...

and

Frederick I. Pitman Frederick (Freddie) Islay Pitman (18 April 1863 – 22 January 1942) was a British rower who rowed in the Boat Race three times and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls and the Wingfield Sculls in 1886. Biography Pitman was born at Edinb ...

* ''Rudyard Kipling'' (W&N, 1999) * ''Barrack-Room Ballads'', Rudyard Kipling (2001?) – an edition of ''Barrack-Room Ballads and other verses'' (1892) annotated by Lycett * ''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) * ''Kipling Abroad: Traffics and discoveries from Burma to Brazil'', Rudyard Kipling, edited by Lycett (

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, 2010)"Kipling abroad: traffics and discoveries from Burma to Brazil"
Library of Congress Catalog Record (LCC). Retrieved 9 April 2014. With linked Contributor biographical information and Publisher description. * ''Wilkie Collins: A life of sensation'' ( Hutchinson & Co., 2013)

Book reviews

References

External links

* Living people 1948 births English biographers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature History Today people People educated at Charterhouse School {{UK-writer-stub