Graham Lord
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Graham Lord is a biographer and novelist. His biographies include those of Jeffrey Bernard, Dick Francis, James Herriot, David Niven, John Mortimer and Joan Collins. He was literary editor of the Sunday Express for 23 years, and now lives in the south of France[1].
He has also written an autobiographical portrait of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and eight novels. He has also published five short stories and his books have been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Russian and Chinese.
He was born in 1943 in Southern Rhodesia and raised in Mozambique. He was educated at Falcon College, Rhodesia. He took an honours degree in History at Cambridge University, edited the university newspaper Varsity and joined the Sunday Express in London, where he spent 23 years as Literary Editor, wrote a weekly column about books and interviewed almost every major English language author of the 1960s to 1990s, from P. G. Wodehouse and Graham Greene to Muriel Spark and Ruth Rendell. In 1987 he launched the £20,000 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and after leaving the Sunday Express in 1992 wrote regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail and from 1994 to 1996 edited the short story magazine Raconteur.
[edit] Publications
Biographies
- Lord, Graham, Joan Collins: The Biography of an Icon, Orion, 2007.
- Lord, Graham, John Mortimer: The Devil's Advocate - The Unauthorised Biography, Orion, 2005.
- Lord, Graham, Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven, Orion, 2004.
- Lord, Graham, Arthur Lowe, Orion, 2001.
- Lord, Graham, Dick Francis: A Racing Life, Little, Brown & Co, 1999.
- Lord, Graham, James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet, Headline, 1997.
- Lord, Graham, Just The One: The Wives and Times of Jeffrey Bernard, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992.
Novels
- Lord, Graham, Sorry - We're Going to Have to Let You Go, Little, Brown & Co, 1999.
- Lord, Graham, A Party to Die For, Little, Brown & Co, 1997.
- Lord, Graham, Time Out of Mind, Hamish Hamilton, 1986.
- Lord, Graham, The Nostradamus Horoscope, Hutchinson, 1981.
- Lord, Graham, God and All His Angels, Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
- Lord, Graham, The Spider and the Fly, Hamish Hamilton, 1974.
- Lord, Graham, A Roof Under Your Feet, Macdonald, 1973.
- Lord, Graham, Marshmallow Pie, Macmillan, 1970.
Autobiography
- Lord, Graham, Ghosts of King Solomon's Mines, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991.
