PIMLICO325NAPOLEONFrank 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
curr endy Visiting Professor in the Department
of Literature at Strathclyde University. A full
time writer, 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 Prize for
Scottish Writer of the Year, and The Jacobite Army
in England, which won the 1985 Cheltenham
Prize 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.