Nicholas Rankin (born 1950) is an England writer and broadcaster.
Biography
Rankin was born in
Yorkshire,
England, but grew up in
Kenya. His father was born in
Glasgow.
[Rankin, Nicholas (1988), Dead Man's Chest: Travels After Robert Louis Stevenson, Faber and Faber, London, p. 10, ] 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.[ Author page at Faber & Faber website]
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 Rankin-Gee.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009.
Bibliography
Books
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Dead Man's Chest: Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson. London, Faber and Faber, 1987.
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Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent. London: Faber and Faber, 2003.
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Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII. London: Faber and Faber, 2011.
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Critical studies and reviews of Rankin's work
- Churchill's Wizards
- Ian Fleming's Commandos
- Telegram from Guernica
- Dead Man's Chest
- Travels after Robert Louis Stevenson
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a critical assessment is included in Lesley Graham's essay "Questions of Identity on the Stevenson Trail in Scotland", in Brown, Ian and Desmarest, Clarisse Godard (eds.), (2023), Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities, Association for Scottish Literature, Glasgow, pp. 138 - 156,
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