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
- Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Faber and Faber, 1987.
- Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.
- Book: Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 . 2008 . Faber and Faber . 978-0-571-22195-0.
- Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber, 2011.
- Book: Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated Hitler. 2017. Faber and Faber. London. 978-0-571-30770-8.
- Book: Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me. 2023. Faber and Faber . London . 978-0-571-30774-6.
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
- a critical assessment is included in Lesley Graham's essay "Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland", in Brown, Ian and Desmarest, Clarisse Godard (eds.), (2023), Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, pp. 138 - 156,
References
- Rankin, Nicholas (1988), Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson, Faber and Faber, London, p. 10,
- http://www.faber.co.uk/author/nicholas-rankin/ Author page at Faber & Faber website
- Web site: Nicholas Rankin. 4 November 2009. Mershon Center for International Security Studies. 1811/44587. 3 December 2013. Rankin. Nicholas.
- 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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