Andrew Lycett is an English biographer and journalist.

He was educated at Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School

Charterhouse School, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse or House, is an English collegiate independent boarding school situated at Godalming in Surrey.Founded by Thomas Sutton in London in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian...

 and studied history at Christ Church, Oxford University. He then worked for a while for The Times as a correspondent in Africa, the Middle East

Middle East

The Middle East is a region that encompasses Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is often used as a synonym for Near East, in opposition to Far East...

, and Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

. He has written a number of well-received biographies; he is best known for his biography of Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...

, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...

 in 2009.

He currently lives and writes in London

London

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Biographies

• Qaddafi and the Libyan Revolution (with David Blundy) (1987)
• Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond (1995)
• Rudyard Kipling (1999)
• Dylan Thomas: A New Life (2005)
• The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2007)