Patrick Marnham

Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He is primarily known for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. As a journalist, he has written for Private Eye, The Independent and The Spectator among others. He served as Literary Editor of The Spectator and Paris correspondent of The Independent. His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award^[1] and the Marsh Biography Award.^[2] Along with Richard West and Auberon Waugh, Marnham was one of three signatories to a letter to The Times that called for a British monument to honour those repatriated as a result of the Yalta Conference, it was eventually erected in 1986.^[3][4]

Books

• Lourdes, A Modern Pilgrimage (1982)
• Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera(1998)
• The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (1993)
• Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance (2012)
• Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Contemporary Africa (1980)
• Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan (1988)
• Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky (2013)
• So Far from God: A Journey to Central America (1987)
• Road to Kathmandu (1971)

Awards

• Winner of the 1985 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for So Far From God: Journey to Central America ISBN 978-0-224-02167-8
• Winner of the Marsh Biography Award for The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: Portrait of Georges Simenon ISBN 978-0-7475-0884-7

References

1. "List of winners of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award" Archived August 31, 2005, at the Wayback Machine. Thomas Cook Publishing website, retrieved October 29, 2010
2. "List of winners of the Marsh Biography Award" Marsh Christian Trust website, retrieved October 29, 2010
3. "Yalta Memorial". The Spectator. 12 July 1986. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
4. "Communist Victims/Twelve Responses to Tragedy". War Memorials Online. Retrieved 30 January 2016.