Andrew Lycett Explained
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
- Book: Blundy, David . David Blundy . Andrew Lycett . amp . Qaddhafi and the Libyan Revolution . London . Weidenfeld and Nicolson . 1987 . 978-0-29778-924-6.
- Book: Blundy, David . David Blundy . Andrew Lycett . amp . Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution . New York . Little, Brown . 1987 . 978-0-31610-042-7.
- Book: Blundy, David . David Blundy . 1 . Andrew Lycett . 1 . amp . Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution . New revised . Corgi . 1988 . 978-0-55299-307-4.
- Ian Fleming (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995) ; US title, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond (Turner Publishing, 1995)
- From Diamond Sculls to Golden Handcuffs: A History of Rowe & Pitman (Robert Hale, 1998) – a history of the stockbroking firm established by George Duncan Rowe and Frederick I. Pitman
- Rudyard Kipling (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999)
- Dylan Thomas: A New Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003)
- Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 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)
- Conan Doyle's Wide World: Sherlock Holmes and Beyond (Tauris Parke, 2020)
- The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective (Frances Lincoln, 2023)
as Editor
- Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems (The Folio Society, 2004)
- Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil (I. B. Tauris, 2010)
- Kipling and the Sea: Voyages and Discoveries from North Atlantic to South Pacific (I. B. Tauris, 2014)
- Kipling and War: From Tommy to My Boy Jack (I. B. Tauris, 2015)
Book reviews
| Year | class='unsortable' | Review article | class='unsortable' | Work(s) reviewed |
|---|
| 2013 | Lycett, Andrew . 8 February 2013 . Bonds Books . Reviews . The Times Literary Supplement . | Book: Glibert, Jon . Jon Gilbert (bibliographer) . Ian Fleming : The Bibliography . London . Queen Anne Press . 2012 . | 2017 | Lycett, Andrew . September 2017 . Stripping down the buttoned up . Reviews . History Today . 67 . 9 . 96. | Book: Hughes, Kathryn . Victorians undone : tales of the flesh in the age of decorum . Fourth Estate . . | |
Notes and References
- List of Members of the University of Oxford, University of Oxford, 1972, p. 394
- Web site: Lycett, Andrew 1948– | Encyclopedia.com. www.encyclopedia.com.
- Web site: biographical - Andrew Lycett. www.andrewlycett.co.uk.
- Web site: Andrew Lycett - The Old Man & the Signorina. Literary Review.
- The Public and Preparatory Schools Year Book, Year Book Press Ltd, 1954, p. 729
- Web site: Interview | Andrew Lycett, author. Author georgia. DC. 4 February 2017.
- Web site: Andrew Lycett - Hard on Their Heels. Literary Review.
- The Old Radleian 2017, Radleian Society, Radley School, p. 62
- Burke's Family Index, ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1976, p. 93
- Web site: Royal Society of Literature All Fellows . Royal Society of Literature (RSL) . 9 August 2010 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows . 5 March 2010 . Out of date.
- http://www.rslit.org/people "Current RSL Fellows"
