Nicholas Rankin Explained

Nicholas Rankin (born 1950) is an English writer and broadcaster.

Biography

Rankin was born in Yorkshire, England, but grew up in Kenya. His father was born in Glasgow.[1] He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He has lived and worked in Bolivia and Catalonia, Spain.

He worked for the BBC World Service for 20 years. He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards.[2] [3]

He currently works as a freelance writer and broadcaster and lives in London with his wife, the novelist Maggie Gee. He has one daughter, Rosa.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.[4]

Bibliography

Books

Critical studies and reviews of Rankin's work

Churchill's Wizards
Ian Fleming's Commandos
Telegram from Guernica
Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson

References

  1. Rankin, Nicholas (1988), Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson, Faber and Faber, London, p. 10,
  2. http://www.faber.co.uk/author/nicholas-rankin/ Author page at Faber & Faber website
  3. Web site: Nicholas Rankin. 4 November 2009. Mershon Center for International Security Studies. 1811/44587. 3 December 2013. Rankin. Nicholas.
  4. Web site: Royal Society of Literature All Fellows. Royal Society of Literature. 10 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. 5 March 2010.

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