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
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- Ian Fleming ; US title, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond
- From Diamond Sculls to Golden Handcuffs: A History of Rowe & Pitman – a history of the stockbroking firm established by George Duncan Rowe and Frederick I. Pitman
- Rudyard Kipling
- Dylan Thomas: A New Life
- Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes ; US title, The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation
- Conan Doyle's Wide World: Sherlock Holmes and Beyond
- ''The Worlds of Sherlock Holmes: The Inspiration Behind the World's Greatest Detective''
as Editor
- Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems
- Kipling Abroad: Traffics and Discoveries from Burma to Brazil
- Kipling and the Sea: Voyages and Discoveries from North Atlantic to South Pacific
- ''Kipling and War: From Tommy to My Boy Jack''
Book reviews