The author’s acclaimed biographer will be here on Friday 29 January at 1pm GMT to answer your questions about his life, his books and his legacy
Andrew Lycett is “a biographer of distinction”, according to Giles Foden. His life of Rudyard Kipling was described as a “magisterial study” by Terry Eagleton and met with wide acclaim when it was published in 1999. So too was Kipling Abroad: Traffics and discoveries from Burma to Brazil, a collection of Kipling’s travel writing. He has also recently edited Kipling and War– a look at Kipling’s intriguing, complicated writings about the military conflicts of his time.
Andrew has also written an excellent book about Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond, and critically acclaimed lives of Wilkie Collins and Dylan Thomas, among others. He has also worked as a foreign correspondent for the Times and Sunday Times, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A fantastic guest, in other words, who will be able to tell us a great deal both about the art of biography and about Kipling.
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