Search - List of Books by Andrew Sinclair
Dr Andrew Sinclair (1935-) is a prolific British novelist, historian, biographer, critic and film-maker. He was a Founding Member of Churchill College, Cambridge. He directed the film, now regarded as a classic, of Under Milk Wood. His book The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967. His biographies have covered a wide variety of famous people: Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford, J Pierpont Morgan, Francis Bacon, etc. Dr Sinclair is married to the writer Sonia Melchett.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972
- Prohibition: The Era of Excess (1962)
- The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman (1965)
- A Concise History of the United States (1967, revised and updated 1999)
- Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara (1968, re-released 2006, Sutton ISBN 0750943106)
- Dylan Thomas: Poet of His People (1975)
- Jack: A Biography of Jack London (1977)
- John Ford: a Biography (1979)
- Corsair: The Life of J Pierpont Morgan (1981)
- The Other Victoria (1985)
- War Like a Wasp: The Last decade of the Forties (1989)
- Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times (1993)
- Arts and Cultures: The History of the Fifty Years of the Arts Council in Great Britain (1996)
- Great Britain (1996)
- Death by Fame: A Life of Elisabeth Empress of Austria (1998)
- Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas (1999, Constable; 2003, Robinson ISBN 1-84119-741-6)
- Under Milk Wood (1972) Director. Starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole.
- Dylan on Dylan (2002, Timon Films)
Total Books: 140