Bryan Appleyard (born 24 August 1951,

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) is a British journalist and author.

Life and work

Appleyard was educated at Bolton School and

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. He worked at ''

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'' and as a freelance journalist and has written for ''

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'', '' Vanity Fair'', London's ''

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'', ''

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'' and the ''

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''. IBPC In 1992 he published the book ''Understanding the Present''. His 1996 novel is called ''The First Church of the New Millennium''. Appleyard has been selected as Feature Writer of the Year three times as well as Interviewer of the Year in the

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and he is a former fellow of the

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. Appleyard was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to journalism and the arts.

Books

* ''The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts'' (1984) ( (pbk)) * ''Richard Rogers: A Biography'' (1986) ( (pbk)) * ''The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain'' (1989) () * ''Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man'' (1992) ( (pbk)) * ''The First Church of the New Millennium: A Novel'' (1995) ( ) * ''Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience'' (1999) ( ) * ''Aliens: Why They Are Here'' (2005) ( ) * ''How to Live Forever or Die Trying'' (2007) () * ''The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World'' (2011) () * ''Bedford Park'' (2013) () * ''The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World'' (2022) ()

References

External links

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Literary agent's website

Commentary on Appleyard's views on science
in ''Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature'' (2001) by Nicholas Agar (limited book preview at Archive.org)
Critique of Appleyard's ''Understanding the Present''
in ''Third Way'', February 1993 (Google Books) * 1951 births English male journalists Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Living people Writers from Bolton The Times people Writers from Manchester People educated at Bolton School Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-journalist-stub