Introduction
Bryan Appleyard (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
Life and work
Appleyard was educated at Bolton School and King's College, Cambridge where he read English. He worked at The Times and then became a freelance journalist. He has also written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, New Statesman, and other publications.
In 1992 he published Understanding the Present which evoked polarizing responses. The book explores his views about "science's corrosive effect on morality". One opposing view is that his views are based on a "tangle of misunderstandings" about the concept of science.
His novel The First Church of the New Millennium incorporates many of the themes common in his newspaper columns, "architecture, popular science and the machine age".
He has been three times Feature Writer of the Year and is currently Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards and a former fellow of the World Economic Forum.
Books
- The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (ISBN 0-571-13279-0 (pbk))
- Richard Rogers: a biography (ISBN 0-571-13976-0 (pbk))
- The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (ISBN 0-571-13722-9 )
- Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (ISBN 0-330-32013-0 (pbk))
- The First Church of the New Millennium: a novel (ISBN 0-385-40485-9 )
- Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (ISBN 0-00-257021-1 )
- Aliens: Why They Are Here (ISBN 0-7432-5685-9 )
- How to Live Forever or Die Trying - Published 22 Jan 2007 Simon & Schuster (ISBN 978-0-7432-6868-4)
- The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World - Published 2011 - (ISBN 978-0-297-86030-3)
- "Bedford Park" Published 2013 - (ISBN 978-1-780-22838-9)