Introduction
Andrew James Hamilton Lownie FRHistS (born November 1961)is a British biographer and literary agent.
He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was President of the Cambridge Union in Easter term 1984. He has a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Lownie founded his eponymous literary agency in 1988. It specialises in non-fiction, representing some 200 authors, and is reported to have "regularly been the top selling agent in the world".
He has published biographies of writer John Buchan, spy Guy Burgess and soldier Lord Mountbatten, and a literary guide to Edinburgh, and has edited several volumes of John Buchan's works. He founded, and is President of, The Biographers' Club, a group "committed to supporting, promoting and connecting biographers at all levels".
Selected publications
- Lownie, Andrew (22 August 2019). The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves. Blink publishing. ISBN 978-1788702560.
- Lownie, Andrew (2016). Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge Spy Ring. St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1250100993.
- Lownie, Andrew (2000). The Literary Companion to Edinburgh. Methuen. ISBN 0413751309. (earlier ed 1992 Canongate Press)
- Lownie, Andrew (1995). John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier. Constable. ISBN 0 09 472500 4.