Frank McLynn is an English author, biographer, historian and journalist. He is noted for critically acclaimed biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Louis Stevenson, Carl Jung, Richard Francis Burton and Henry Morton Stanley. McLynn was educated at Wadham College, Oxford and the University of London. He was Alistair Horne Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford (1987–88) and was visiting professor in the Department of Literature at the University of Strathclyde (1996–2001) and professorial fellow at Goldsmiths College London (2000 - 2002) before becoming a full-time writer.
Books
Carl Gustav Jung
A Biography
1996
Invasion
From the Armada to Hitler
1987
The Road Not Taken
How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, 1381-1926
2012
Marcus Aurelius
A Life
2009
Robert Louis Stevenson
A Biography
1993
The Jacobite Army in England, 1745
The Final Campaign
1983
The Burma Campaign
Disaster into Triumph 1942-45
2010
Fitzroy Maclean
1992
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England
1989
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Charles Edward Stuart
1988
The Jacobites
1985
Wagons West
The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails
2002
Richard and John
Kings at War
2006
1759
The Year Britain Became Master of the World
2003
Captain Cook
Master of the Seas
2011
Villa and Zapata
A History of the Mexican Revolution
2000
Napoleon
A Biography
1997
Famous Letters
Messages & Thoughts That Shaped Our World
1993
Genghis Khan
His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
2015
Hearts of Darkness
The European Exploration of Africa
1992
Famous Trials
1995
1066
The Year of the Three Battles
1998
Stanley
The Making of an African Explorer
1989
Heroes Villains
Inside the minds of the greatest warriors in history
2007
Burton
Snow Upon the Desert
1991
