Byron Rogers (author)

Byron Rogers is a Welsh journalist, essayist and biographer. In August, 2007 the University of Edinburgh awarded him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the best biography published in the previous year, for "The Man Who Went Into the West: The Life of RS Thomas". The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, said of the book: "Byron Rogers's lively and affectionate biography is unexpectedly, even riotously, funny."

Born and raised in Carmarthen, he now lives in Northamptonshire. He has written for the Sunday Telegraph and The Guardian, and was once speech writer for the Prince of Wales. It has been written of his essays that he is "a historian of the quirky and forgotten, of people and places other journalists don't even know exist or ignore if they do".

Bibliography

Essays

*"An Audience with an Elephant", Aurum, 2001.
*"The Green Lane to Nowhere: the Life of an English Village", Aurum, 2002.
*"The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail: travels to the wilder reaches of Wales", Aurum, 2003.
*"The Last Human Cannonball", Aurum, 2004.

Biography

*"The Last Englishman, the Life of J.L.Carr", Aurum, 2003.
*"The Man Who Went Into the West, the Life of R.S.Thomas", Aurum, 2006.

History

*"The Lost Children", Gregynog, 2005.

References

* [http://www.terrynorm.ic24.net/last%20tramp.htm#rogers Note on Byron Rogers]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/book_of_the_year/pages/2007_longlist.shtml BBC Wales]