David McKie

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David McKie (born 1935) is a British journalist and historian. He was deputy editor of The Guardian and continued to write a weekly column for that paper until 4 October 2007, with the byline "Elsewhere". Until September 10, 2005, he also wrote a second weekly column, under the pseudonym "Smallweed" (and occasionally under anagrams, such as "Dame Wells", and "Lee Laws MD").

His book Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel, a biography of the Victorian era politician and swindler Jabez Balfour, was shortlisted for the Saga Award for Wit, also known as the Silver Booker, as well as the Whitbread Book Award for biography.

[edit] Works

• Great British Bus Journeys: Travels Through Unfamous Places (2006) Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84354-132-7
• Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel (2004) Atlantic Books ISBN 1-84354-130-0
• The "Guardian" Year (2002) Atlantic Books ISBN 1-84354-015-0
• Media Coverage of Parliament (1999) Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government ISBN 0-900432-50-0
• "The Guardian" Political Almanac 1994/5 (1994) ISBN 1-85702-240-8
• "Guardian" Political Almanac (1993) ISBN 1-85702-157-6
• The Election: A Voter's Guide (1992) Fourth Estate ISBN 1-85702-041-3
• The 'Guardian' - Quartet Election Guide (1974) Quartet Books ISBN 0-7043-1189-5
• Sadly Mismanaged Affair: Politics of the Third London Airport (1973) Croom Helm ISBN 0-85664-096-4
• Decade of Disillusion: Britain in the Sixties (1972) Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-333-13064-2
• Election '70 (1970) Panther ISBN 0-586-03389-0

[edit] External links

• Guardian Elsewhere column by David McKie
• Guardian Smallweed column by David McKie
• Open Directory Project - David McKie directory category
• David McKie at www.contemporarywriters.com