Patrick French

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Patrick French (1966 - ) is an English writer and historian. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of Francis Younghusband which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize. He is a former director (i.e. a non-executive board member) of the Free Tibet Campaign.

He studied literature at the University of Edinburgh

His other books include:

Liberty or Death: India’s Journey to Independence and Division, which won the London Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.

Tibet, Tibet : A Personal History Of A Lost Land[1]

The World Is What It Is: a biography of Nobel Prize-winning writer Sir V.S. Naipaul