Bryan Appleyard

Bryan Appleyard (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.

Life and work

Appleyard was educated at Bolton School[1] and King's College, Cambridge. He worked at The Times and as a freelance journalist and has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, the London Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and the New Statesman.[2]

In 1992 he published the book Understanding the Present.[3]

His 1996 novel is called The First Church of the New Millennium.[4] Appleyard has been selected as Feature Writer of the Year three times as well as Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards and he is a former fellow of the World Economic Forum.[2]

Books

  • The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (1984) ( ISBN 0-571-13279-0 (pbk))
  • Richard Rogers: A Biography (1986) ( ISBN 0-571-13976-0 (pbk))
  • The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (1989) ( ISBN 0-571-13722-9)
  • Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (1992) ( ISBN 0-330-32013-0 (pbk))
  • The First Church of the New Millennium: A Novel (1995) ( ISBN 0-385-40485-9 )
  • Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (1999) ( ISBN 0-00-257021-1 )
  • Aliens: Why They Are Here (2005) ( ISBN 0-7432-5685-9 )
  • How to Live Forever or Die Trying (2007) ( ISBN 978-0-7432-6868-4)
  • The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World (2011) ( ISBN 978-0-297-86030-3)
  • Bedford Park (2013) ( ISBN 978-1-780-22838-9)

References

  1. ↑ boltonschool.org
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 January 2009. Retrieved 9 August 2014. IBPC
  3. ↑ Zarandi, Mehrdad M. (2003). Science and the Myth of Progress. World Wisdom, Inc. pp. 235–. ISBN 9780941532471. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Wheen, Francis (17 June 1996). Lord Gnome's Literary Companion. Verso. pp. 155–. ISBN 9781859840450. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
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