Graham Lord

Graham Lord is a British biographer and novelist. His biographies include those of Jeffrey Bernard, James Herriot, Dick Francis, David Niven, John Mortimer and Joan Collins. He was literary editor of the Sunday Express for 23 years and now lives with an artist, Juliet Lewis, on the island of Nevis in the West Indies and in the South of France [ [http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/1973-0/author-Graham-Lord.htm Graham Lord - an Orion author ] ] .

He has also published an autobiographical portrait of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, eight novels, 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, raised in Mozambique, educated at Falcon College, Southern Rhodesia, and took an honours degree in History at Cambridge University, where he edited the university newspaper Varsity. After working briefly for the Cambridge Evening News, in 1965 he joined the Sunday Express in London as a reporter and feature writer, where he went on to spend 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. From 1982 to 1988 he was vice-chairman of Newbury Mencap, from 1985 to 1987 he represented the Lambourn Valley as an elected Conservative councillor on Newbury District Council, and in 1987 he launched the £20,000 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. After leaving the Sunday Express in 1992 to become a full-time author he wrote regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail, and from 1994 to 1996 he edited the short story magazine Raconteur. See http://www.graham-lord.com for summaries and reviews of his books.

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.

References