Frank McLynn was educated at Wadham
College, Oxford, and the University of London.
He was Alistair Horne Research Fellow at St
Antony's College, Oxford, in 1987-88, and is
currendy Visiting Professor in the Department
of Literature at Strathclyde University. A fulltime wr iter, he is the author of biographies of
H.M. Stanley and Richard Burton, as well as
several books relating to the Jacobite movement,
including Charles Edward Stuart, which was
shordisted for the 1989 McVitie's Pr ize for
Scottish Writer of the Year, and The Jacobite Army
in England, which won the 1985 Cheltenham
Pr ize for Literature. His most recent books are
Hearts cif Darkness: The European Exploration cif
Africa, Robert Louis Stevenson (both also available
from Pimlico), Fitzroy Maclean and Carl Gustav
]ung, which was shordisted for the 1997 NCR
Award.