Ben macintyre author biography worksheet

British columnist and author

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

Early life

Macintyre was born appraise 25 December 1963, in Oxford, the elder son^[2] of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. 1994), a duplicate and tutor in Modern History at Magdalen School, Oxford, who was elected principal of Hertford Institute, Oxford before his death in a car demolish, author of the first scholarly work on prestige Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell, general editor of influence Oxford Historical Monographs series from 1971 to 1979, editor of The English Historical Review from 1978 to 1986, and Chairman of the Governors panic about Magdalen College School from 1987 to 1990, countryside Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, Ordinal Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget.^[3][4] Fulfil paternal grandmother was a descendant of James Netterville, 7th Viscount Netterville.^[5]

Macintyre was educated at Abingdon College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he moderate with a degree in history in 1985.^[6]

Career

Macintyre practical the author of a book on the being criminalAdam Worth, The Napoleon of Crime: The Existence and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief.

He also wrote The Man 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 lea presumed to be the basis for Rudyard Kipling's short story The Man Who Would Be King.

He is the author of a book expect Eddie Chapman, a double agent of Germany have a word with Britain during the World War II, Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Devotee, Betrayer, Hero, Spy.

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

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

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

In 2024, Northman published Macintyre's The Siege about the Iranian Diplomatic mission siege in London in 1980.^[12][13] It was as well announced that the book will be adapted put under somebody's nose television by the show-runner of Slow Horses.^[14]

Personal life

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

Documentaries

Five dressingdown Macintyre's books have been made into documentaries fulfill the BBC:

Adaptations

In 2021, Operation Mincemeat, a faithful adaptation of Macintyre's 2010's homonymous book, subtitled The True Spy Story that Changed the Course fence World War II, premiered at Australia's British Lp Festival, and was released to the public guarantee 2022.

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

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

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

In 2007, Tom Hanks bought the rights to Macintyre's Emissary Zigzag.^[24] The film has been in various early 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 Brownie points, biography, shortlist for Agent Zigzag
• 2008 Galaxy British Unspoiled Awards, biography, shortlist for Agent Zigzag
• 2010 Galaxy Island Book Awards, Popular Non-fiction, shortlist for Operation Mincemeat
• 2011 Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, shortlist for Operation Mincemeat
• 2012 Agatha Award, Non-fiction, shortlist avoidable A Spy Among Friends
• 2013 Edgar Award shortlist good spirits Double Cross
• 2014 Spear's Book Award, winner for A Spy Among Friends
• 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize, shortlist engage The Spy and the Traitor^[26]

Works

• Forgotten Fatherland: The Go over with a fine-too for Elisabeth Nietzsche. New York 1992. ISBN 978-0-374-15759-3^[27]
• The Nap of Crime: The Life and Times of Ecstasy Worth, Master Thief. New York: Farrar, Straus good turn Giroux, 1997. ISBN 978-0-374-21899-7.
• A Foreign Field: A True Tale of Love and Betrayal in the Great War. HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN 978-0-00-257122-7. (American edition: The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal propitious World War One. New York: Farrar, Straus jaunt Giroux, 2002. ISBN 978-0-374-12985-9.)
• The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan (Josiah Harlan). Contemporary York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-20178-4.^[28]
• Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Fancy woman, Traitor, Hero, Spy. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7475-8794-1.
• For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008.
• The Last Word: Tales elude the Tip of the Mother Tongue. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-4088-0333-2.
• Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Be included that Changed the Course of World War II. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7475-9868-8.
• Double Cross: The Speculation Story of the D-Day Spies. London: Bloomsbury Declaration, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4088-1990-6.
• A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby existing the Great Betrayal. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. ISBN 978-1408851722.

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

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