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Appleyard,
Bryan
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From Bryan Appleyards
web site at http://www.bryanappleyard.com/
May you live in interesting times
is often said to be a Chinese curse. Is it really? Anyway,
a much more terrible curse would be, may you meet interesting
people. I meet interesting people all the time and that is
'interesting'. But the effect of the curse is that these meetings
remind me of how dull my own life has been. Neverthless, web
sites must have 'biogs' so here is an edited version of mine.
Born Manchester. Educated Bolton School
and King?s College. Cambridge. Degree in English. At The Times
as Financial News Editor and Deputy Arts Editor from 1976
to 1984. Freelance journalist ever since. Three times won
Feature Writer of the Year and twice commended in the British
Press Awards. Have contributed to, among others, Times, Sunday
Times, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement,
The Tablet, New York Times, Vanity Fair etc. I am currently
a special feature writer, commentator, reviewer and columnist
for The Sunday Times.
My books are: The Culture Club: Crisis
in the Arts, Richard Rogers: a biography, The Pleasures of
Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain, Understanding
the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man, The First
Church of the New Millennium: a novel, Brave New Worlds: Genetics
and the Human Experience (winner of a medical writing prize
whose name I cannot remember); Aliens: Why They Are Here.
I am just finishing a book on immortality called, provisionally
and unamazingly, Immortality.
I have lectured, debated or taught numerous
universities, including Boston, St Andrews, Glasgow, Leeds,
Cambridge, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, London, Liverpool
John Moores, Architectural Association, Glasgow School of Architecture
and I have been a fellow of the World Economic Forum. I have
done much television, usually with disastrous consequences,
and I do lots of radio, which I like though I am told it makes
me sound at least 30 years older than I actually am.
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