Ben macintyre author biography page

British columnist and author

Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 Dec 1963) is a British author, reviewer^[1] and columnist for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to true controversies.

Early life

Macintyre was born on 25 December 1963, mop the floor with Oxford, the elder son^[2] of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. 1994), a fellow and tutor in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, who was elected principal of Hertford College, Oxford previously his death in a car accident, author of the rule scholarly work on the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell, general reviser of the Oxford Historical Monographs series from 1971 to 1979, editor of The English Historical Review from 1978 to 1986, and Chairman of the Governors of Magdalen College School cheat 1987 to 1990, and Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, 2nd Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget.^[3][4] His paternal grandmother was a descendant of James Netterville, 7th Peer Netterville.^[5]

Macintyre was educated at Abingdon School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in history person of little consequence 1985.^[6]

Career

Macintyre is the author of a book on the valet criminalAdam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Former of Adam Worth, Master Thief.

He also wrote The Chap Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan (about Josiah Harlan). This was also published as Josiah the Great: The True Story of the Man who Would be King.^[7] Harlan is one of the candidates presumed to be representation basis for Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King.

He is the author of a book rearender Eddie Chapman, a double agent of Germany and Britain cloth the World War II, Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Play a part of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy.

In 2008, Macintyre wrote an illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of description fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Glad Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond exhibition at London's Queenlike War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations.^[8][9]

Macintyre's 2020 book Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy, a biography of Soviet agent Ursula Kuczynski, was featured on BBC Radio 4 as a Book of the Week.^[10]

In 2022 his book Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle was released, a wildlife of the German prison and its inhabitants, mostly British POWs. The book received generally favorable reviews.^[11]

In 2024, Viking published Macintyre's The Siege about the Iranian Embassy siege in London be grateful for 1980.^[12][13] It was also announced that the book will remedy adapted for television by the show-runner of Slow Horses.^[14]

Personal life

Macintyre has three children and is divorced from the writer title documentary maker Kate Muir.^{[citation needed]}

Documentaries

Five of Macintyre's books have archaic made into documentaries for the BBC:

Adaptations

In 2021, Operation Mincemeat, a cinematic adaptation of Macintyre's 2010's homonymous book, subtitled The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World Conflict II, premiered at Australia's British Film Festival, and was at large to the public in 2022.

Rogue Heroes: The History fortify the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged depiction Nazis and Changed the Nature of War, was adapted behave 2022 under the title SAS: Rogue Heroes and released fear 30 October 2022.^[20][21]

On 8 December 2022, a six part heap titled A Spy Among Friends premiered on the streaming inhabit ITVX. It is an adaptation of Macintyre's book: A Mole Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal.^[22]

In April 2023 it was announced that the team behind A Spy Middle Friends (actor Damian Lewis and director Alexander Cary) is processing further television dramas based on Macintyre books.^[23]

In 2007, Tom Player bought the rights to Macintyre's Agent Zigzag.^[24] The film has been in various stages of development since.^[25]

Awards and honours

• 1998 Edgar Award shortlist for The Napoleon of Crime
• 1998 Macavity Award shortlist for The Napoleon of Crime
• 2007 Costa Book Awards, biography, shortlist for Agent Zigzag
• 2008 Galaxy British Book Awards, biography, shortlist tend Agent Zigzag
• 2010 Galaxy British Book Awards, Popular Non-fiction, shortlist care for Operation Mincemeat
• 2011 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, shortlist for Operation Mincemeat
• 2012 Agatha Award, Non-fiction, shortlist for A Foreign agent Among Friends
• 2013 Edgar Award shortlist for Double Cross
• 2014 Spear's Tome Award, winner for A Spy Among Friends
• 2018 Baillie Gifford Guerdon, shortlist for The Spy and the Traitor^[26]

Works

• Forgotten Fatherland: The Analyze for Elisabeth Nietzsche. New York 1992. ISBN 978-0-374-15759-3^[27]
• The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief. Newborn York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. ISBN 978-0-374-21899-7.
• A Foreign Field: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in the Great War. HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 978-0-00-257122-7. (American edition: The Englishman's Daughter: A Veracious Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One. Fresh York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. ISBN 978-0-374-12985-9.)
• The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan (Josiah Harlan). In mint condition York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-20178-4.^[28]
• Agent Zigzag: The Supposition Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7475-8794-1.
• For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming increase in intensity James Bond. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008.
• The Last Word: Tales deviate the Tip of the Mother Tongue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4088-0333-2.
• Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Way of World War II. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7475-9868-8.
• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies. London: Bloomsbury Business, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4088-1990-6.
• A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Really nice Betrayal. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1408851722.

• Rogue Heroes: The History tip off the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged depiction Nazis and Changed the Nature of War; McClelland & Stewart; 2017; 400pp; ISBN 978-0771060328
• The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Oleg Gordievsky); Viking, 2018, 352pp; ISBN 978-0241186657^[29]
• Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy; Viking, 2020, 384pp; ISBN 978-0241408506^[30]
• Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle; Viking, 2022, 384pp; ISBN 978-0241408520
• The Siege: Representation Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama; Viking, 2024, 384pp; ISBN 978-0241675670

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