Bryan Appleyard
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Bryan Appleyard Template:Post-nominals (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
Life and work
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
- The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (1984) (Template:ISBN (pbk))
- Richard Rogers: A Biography (1986) (Template:ISBN (pbk))
- The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (1989) (Template:ISBN)
- Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (1992) (Template:ISBN (pbk))
- The First Church of the New Millennium: A Novel (1995) (Template:ISBN )
- Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (1999) (Template:ISBN )
- Aliens: Why They Are Here (2005) (Template:ISBN )
- How to Live Forever or Die Trying (2007) (Template:ISBN)
- The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World (2011) (Template:ISBN)
- Bedford Park (2013) (Template:ISBN)
- The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World (2022) (Template:ISBN)
References
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External links
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- 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)
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- 1951 births
- English male journalists
- Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
- Living people
- Writers from Bolton
- The Times people
- Writers from Manchester
- People educated at Bolton School
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire