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Graham Lord
Born(1943-02-16)16 February 1943
Died13 June 2015(2015-06-13) (aged 72)
NationalityBritish
EducationChurchill College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Biographer
  • novelist
  • Graham Lord (16 February 1943 – 13 June 2015) was a British biographer and novelist. His biographies include those of Jeffrey Bernard, James Herriot, Dick Francis, Arthur Lowe, David Niven, John Mortimer and Joan Collins. He was the literary editor of the Sunday Express for 23 years, from 1969 to 1992.

    Life[edit]

    Lord was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), raised in Mozambique, educated at Falcon College, Zimbabwe[1] and took an honours degree in History at Churchill College, Cambridge, where he edited the university newspaper Varsity.

    After working briefly for the Cambridge Evening News, in 1965 he joined the Sunday Express in London as a reporter and feature writer, where he spent 23 years as Literary Editor, wrote a weekly column about books and interviewed almost every major English language author of the 1960s to 1990s, including Graham Greene, Dame Muriel Spark and Ruth Rendell.

    From 1982 to 1988 he was vice-chairman of Newbury Mencap, from 1985-87 he represented the Lambourn Valley as a Conservative councillor on Newbury District Council, and in 1987 he launched the £20,000 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. After leaving the Sunday Express in 1992 to become a full-time author, he wrote regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail. From 1994 to 1996, he edited the short story magazine Raconteur.[citation needed]

    He also published a memoir of the people he met during his forty years in Fleet Street, Lord's Ladies and Gentlemen: 100 Legends of the 20th Century, which includes an unflattering profile of his former editor at the Sunday Express, Sir John Junor.[2] In addition, his other books include an autobiographical portrait of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, nine novels, and a collection of short stories, essays and journalism, Lord of the Files. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Russian and Chinese.[citation needed]

    Graham Lord lived with his wife, Juliet, an artist, on Nevis, West Indies, and also in France.[3]

    Death[edit]

    Lord died of liver cancer on 13 June 2015, at the age of 72.[where?][4]

    Publications[edit]

    Biographies[edit]

    Novels[edit]

    Autobiography[edit]

    Anthology[edit]

    Lord of the Files: Short Stories, Essays and Journalism, Fern Hill Books, 2013

    References[edit]

    1. ^ Lord, Graham (1991). Ghosts of King Solomon's Mines. London: Sinclair-Stevenson..
  • ^ "Oh, Lord. 'Seedy' Sunday Express editor JJ exposed". Press Gazette. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  • ^ "Graham Lord". Orion Books. Archived from the original on 6 July 2008. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  • ^ "Graham Lord, writer - obituary". The Telegraph. 14 June 2015. Archived from the original on 5 November 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  • External links[edit]


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