Nicholas Rankin
Nicholas Rankin is a British writer and broadcaster.Biography
Rankin was born in Yorkshire, England, but grew up in Kenya. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He has lived and worked in Bolivia and Catalonia, Spain.
He worked for the BBC World Service for 20 years. He was Chief Producer, Arts, at the BBC World Service, when his eight-part series on ecology and evolution, A Green History of the Planet, won two UN awards.
He currently works as a freelance writer and broadcaster and lives in London with his wife, the novelist Maggie Gee. He has one daughter, Rosa.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.Works
- Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Faber and Faber, 1987.
- Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.
- * Reviewed by Robert Macfarlane, , in The Observer
- * Reviewed by D. J. Taylor, , in The Guardian
- * Reviewed by Andrew Roberts, , in The Sunday Telegraph
- * Reviewed by Michael Bywater, , in The Daily Telegraph
- * Reviewed by M. R. D. Foot in 308/9397 : 44
- Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber, 2011.
- * Reviewed by William Boyd, , in The Guardian
