David McKie

David McKie (born 1935) is a British journalist and historian. He was deputy editor of The Guardian and continued to write a weekly column for that paper until 4 October 2007, with the byline "Elsewhere". Until 10 September 2005, he also wrote a second weekly column, under the pseudonym "Smallweed" (and occasionally under anagrams, such as "Dame Wells", and "Lee Laws MD"). He continues to contribute to the paper on an occasional basis, including a piece about his premature death being falsely reported in this article.^[1]

His book Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel, a biography of the Victorian era politician and swindler Jabez Balfour, was shortlisted for the Saga Award for Wit, also known as the Silver Booker, as well as the Whitbread Book Award for biography.^[2] Great British Bus Journeys was shortlisted for a Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2007.

References

Works

• Election '70, Panther (1970) ISBN 0586033890
• Decade of Disillusion: Britain in the Sixties, Palgrave Macmillan (1972) ISBN 0333130642
• Sadly Mismanaged Affair: Politics of the Third London Airport, Croom Helm (1973) ISBN 0856640964
• The 'Guardian' - Quartet Election Guide, Quartet Books (1974) ISBN 0704311895
• The Election: A Voter's Guide, Fourth Estate (1992) ISBN 1857020413
• "Guardian" Political Almanac (1993) ISBN 1857021576
• "The Guardian" Political Almanac 1994/5 (1994) ISBN 1857022408
• Media Coverage of Parliament, Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government (1999) ISBN 0900432500
• The "Guardian" Year, Atlantic Books (2002) ISBN 1843540150
• Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel, Atlantic Books (2004) ISBN 978-1843541301
• Great British Bus Journeys: Travels Through Unfamous Places, Atlantic Books (2006) ISBN 978-1843541325
• McKie's Gazetteer: A Local History of Britain , Atlantic Books (2008) ISBN 978-1843546542
• Bright Particular Stars: A Gallery of Glorious British Eccentrics, Atlantic Books (2011) ISBN 978-1848872486

External links

• David McKie at Atlantic Books
• Guardian Elsewhere column by David McKie
• Guardian Smallweed column by David McKie
• David McKie at Contemporary Writers
• Works by or about David McKie in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• David McKie at the Open Directory Project