Andro Linklater

Andro Linklater (born 10 December 1944, Scotland) is a non-fiction writer, and historian.

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Life

Andro Ian Robert Linklater is the youngest son of Eric Linklater. His brother is journalist, Magnus Linklater and his sisters are the voice expert Kristin Linklater and painter, Sally Linklater. His nephew, son of Kristin, is film actor Hamish Linklater

He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. At the end of the 1960s he lived in the United States, but returned to Britain to teach in Scotland and London, before turning to writing after his father's death in 1974.

His widely acclaimed book Measuring America has led to a series of illuminating books on American history, about which he is an accomplished speaker.[1]

His work has appeared in Prospect Magazine,[2] The Spectator,[3] The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Reader's Digest and Daily Mail.

He is married to photographer Marie-Louise Avery and lives in Kent.

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