Andrew Lownie

Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union, before taking his Masters and doctorate at Edinburgh University. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former visiting fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, he has run his own literary agency since 1988. A trustee of the Campaign for Freedom of Information and President of The Biographers Club, he has written for the Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Guardian and formerly served in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was one of the six man team who advised on the creation of the Washington Spy Museum. His books include lives of the writer and Canadian Governor-General John Buchan, the Cambridge Spy Guy Burgess, the former Viceroy of India Dickie Mountbatten and the former Edward Vlll. He has been the top selling literary agent in the world and lectures extensively on how to get published biography. He is currently a visiting professor at the Ulster Literary Biography Research Centre and a Senior Research Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Buckingham.