Byron Rogers (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh journalist, essayist, historian and biographer. In August 2007, the

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awarded him the

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for the best biography published in the previous year, for ''The Man Who Went into the West: The Life of RS Thomas''. The

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, said of the book: "Byron Rogers's lively and affectionate biography is unexpectedly, even riotously, funny." Born and raised in

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, Rogers now lives in

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. He has written for the '' Sunday Telegraph'' and ''

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'', and was once speech writer for the then Prince of Wales, now King Charles III. It has been written of his essays that he is "a historian of the quirky and forgotten, of people and places other journalists don't even know exist or ignore if they do".

Bibliography

Essays

*''An Audience with an Elephant'', Aurum, 2001. *''The Green Lane to Nowhere: the Life of an English Village'', Aurum, 2002. *''The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail: travels to the wilder reaches of Wales'', Aurum, 2003. *''The Last Human Cannonball and Other Small Journeys in Search of Great Men'', Aurum, 2004. *''Three Journeys'', Gomer Press, 2011.

Biography

*''The Last Englishman, the Life of J. L. Carr'', Aurum, 2003. *''The Man Who Went into the West, the Life of R. S. Thomas'', Aurum, 2006. *''Me: The Authorised Biography'', Aurum, 2009.

History

*''The Lost Children'', Gregynog, 2005.

References

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