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Patrick French

Born

in The United Kingdom

May 28, 1966

Died

March 16, 2023

Genre

History, Biography

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Patrick French was a British writer and historian, based in London. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh where he studied English and American literature.

French is the author of several books including Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband, The World Is What It Is (2008), an authorized biography of Nobel Laureate V.S Naipaul which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States of America, and India: A Portrait, an intimate biography of 1.2 billion people.(2010)

During the 1992 general election, French was a Green Party candidate for Parliament. He has sat on the executive committee of the Tibet Support Group UK, and was a founding member of the inter-governmen ...more

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	India: A Portrait 3.74 avg rating — 1,036 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul 4.17 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 2008 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land 3.92 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2003 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division 4.01 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer 4.01 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1994 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire at My Feet it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Woman: The Authorized Biography of Doris Lessing it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oltre le porte della città proibita 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Popular, gentle, solitary and eccentric, Wyndham lived with his mother, wore heavy glasses and high-waisted trousers, gave off random murmurs and squeaks, and moved with an amphibian gait.”
― Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

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“Was he barking mad?”
― Patrick French, Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

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“I had forgotten the squalor, the rhythmic nose-blowing, the screeching announcements, the theatrical ejection of phlegm, the elbowing, staring, shouting and poking, the sheer numbers that managed to crowd into each carriage and onto each bunk, the sense you had on China’s railways that you were in a land of people—1.27 billion at the last time of counting.”
― Patrick French, Tibet, Tibet

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