Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard CBE (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
Life and work
[edit | edit source]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, London's The 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]
Appleyard was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and the arts.[5]
Books
[edit | edit source]- The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (1984) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (pbk))
- Richard Rogers: A Biography (1986) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (pbk))
- The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (1989) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (1992) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (pbk))
- The First Church of the New Millennium: A Novel (1995) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). )
- Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (1999) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). )
- Aliens: Why They Are Here (2005) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). )
- How to Live Forever or Die Trying (2007) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World (2011) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Bedford Park (2013) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World (2022) (Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ boltonschool.org
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- Literary agent's website
- Commentary on Appleyard's views on science in Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature (2001) by Nicholas Agar (limited book preview at Archive.org)
- Critique of Appleyard's Understanding the Present in Third Way, February 1993 (Google Books)
- Bryan Appleyard at Library of Congress, with 8 library catalogue records
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