Patrick Marnham
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Patrick Marnham (born 19431) is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. His most recent book, published in September 20201, is War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France, an investigation into the betrayal of a British resistance network in the summer of 1943.
Patrick Marnham (born 1943) is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. His most recent book, published in September 2020, is War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France, an investigation into the betrayal of a British resistance network in the summer of 1943.
Travel books
Road to Katmandu (1971) Lourdes, A Modern Pilgrimage (1980) So Far from God: A Journey to Central America (1985) Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky (2013)
Biography
The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (1992) Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera (1998) Wild Mary: The Life of Mary Wesley (2006) Darling Pol: Letters of Mary Wesley and Eric Siepmann 1944–1967 (2017)
Current affairs
Fantastic Invasion: Dispatches from Contemporary Africa (1980) The Private Eye Story: the first 21 years (1982) Trail of Havoc: In the Steps of Lord Lucan (1988)
France
Crime and the Académie Française: Dispatches from Paris (1993) The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost (2000) War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France (September 2020)
Awards
Winner of the 1985 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for So Far From God: Journey to Central America, Winner of the Marsh Biography Award for The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: Portrait of Georges Simenon, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected 1988)
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