Francis James McLynn (GBR)

Francis James McLynn FRHistS FRGS (born 29 August 1941) — known as Frank McLynn — is a British 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.

Books

France and the Jacobite Rising of 1745 (1981), Edinburgh University Press
The Jacobite Army in England, 1745-46 (1983), John Donald Publishers Ltd
The Jacobites (1985), Law Book Co of Australasia
Invasion: From the Armada to Hitler (1987), Routledge
Charles Edward Stuart: A Tragedy in Many Acts (1988)
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England (1989), Routledge
Stanley: The Making of an African Explorer, 1841-1877 (1990), Scarborough House Publishers
From the Sierras to the Pampas: Richard Burton’s Travels in the Americas, 1860-69 (1991), Trafalgar Square
Stanley: Sorcerer's Apprentice (1992), Oxford University Press
Snow upon the Desert: The Life of Sir Richard Burton (1993), John Murray Publishers Ltd
Hearts of Darkness: The European Exploration of Africa (1993), Carroll & Graf Pub
Famous Letters: Messages & Thoughts That Shaped Our World (1993), Reader's Digest Association
Fitzroy MacLean (1993), John Murray Publishers Ltd
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (1994), Random House
Famous Trials: Cases That Made History (1995), Readers Digest
Napoleon: A Biography (1997), Arcade Publishing
Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography (1997), Thomas Dunne Books
1066: The Year of the Three Battles (1998), Jonathan Cape, Reissued by Pimlico, ISBN 9780712666725
Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution (2000), Basic Books
Wagons West: The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails (2002), Grove Press
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World (2005), Atlantic Monthly Press, ISBN 9780871138811
Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest (2006), Jonathan Cape (Ill. edition)
Richard and John: Kings at War (2007), Da Capo Press
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor (2009), Bodley Head, ISBN 9780306819162
Heroes and Villains: Inside the Minds of the Greatest Warriors in History (2009), Pegasus
The Burma Campaign: Disaster Into Triumph 1942 - 45 (2010), Bodley Head, Issued by Yale University Press in 2011, ISBN9780300187441
Captain Cook: Master of the Seas (2011), Yale University Press, ISBN 9780300114218

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McLynn