Andrew Lycett


Andrew Michael Duncan Lycett FRSL is an English biographer and journalist.

Early life

Born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to Peter Norman Lycett Lycett and Joan Mary Duncan, Lycett spent some of his childhood in Tanganyika, where his father established a preparatory school, The Southern Highlands School. Peter Lycett's mother was of the Burns-Lindow family of Ingwell and , Cumbria.
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 2010.
He lives and writes in London.

Books