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Frank McLynn


Born
August 29, 1941

Genre
History, Biographies & Memoirs


Frank McLynn is an English author, biographer, historian and journalist. He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley.

McLynn was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and the University of London. He was Alistair Horne Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford (1987–88) and was visiting professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Strathclyde (1996–2001) and professorial fellow at Goldsmiths College London (2000 - 2002) before becoming a full-time writer. ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 5,182 ratings · 647 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors
Genghis Khan: His Conquests...
3.81 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 2015 — 22 editions
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Napoleon: A Biography
3.87 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 1997 — 25 editions
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Marcus Aurelius
3.69 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions
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Villa and Zapata: A History...
3.98 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
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Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography
4.18 avg rating — 330 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions
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Richard and John: Kings at War
3.68 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions
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1066: The Year of the Three...
3.98 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
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1759: The Year Britain Beca...
3.86 avg rating — 219 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions
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Wagons West: The Epic Story...
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The Burma Campaign: Disaste...
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“the greatest humourists are deep down usually angry men, who know that human nature ignores tirades, but is responsive to laughter.”
― Frank McLynn, Marcus Aurelius: A Life
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“Next day he proved the point that he was always singularly useless unless some daredevil escapade was called for.”
― Frank McLynn, Napoleon: A Biography
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“he passed through a village and a woman approached him with a request. ‘I don’t have the time,’ he replied. ‘Then stop being emperor’ was the devastating riposte.”
― Frank McLynn, Marcus Aurelius: A Life
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