Andrew Morton (writer)

Andrew Morton ( born 1953 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire ) is an English journalist and author.

Life

Morton attended school in Leeds and studied history at the University of Sussex. Then he trained at various magazines of Mirror Group and worked after the completion of the training program as a newspaper journalist in Manchester and from 1981 in London. Since 1982 he was a Royal obsequious and uncritical reporting for the British tabloid press (including The Daily Mail, News of the World and Daily Star ) operates; From 1983 he also published several books in this field. In 1988 he left Fleet Street and became self-employed as an author.

His published in 1992 biography of Diana, Princess of Wales became a worldwide bestseller (including # 1 on the New York Times bestseller list ), although he bulimia sources for many details on Diana's unhappy marriage, Charles ' affair with Camilla Parker Bowles and Diana undisclosed. Only after Diana's death in 1997, Morton announced that she was the main source for his biography itself, and the manuscript was edited by hand. For his book, he was in 1992 by the London Press Club with the Scoop of the Year and honored at the British Book Awards with the price Author of the Year 1993.

His biography published in 1999 the world has become known by the Lewinsky affair intern Monica Lewinsky became a number - one bestseller. He had less success in 2001 with his unauthorized biography of Madonna.

Morton lives in London.

Works

  • ( with Mick Seamark ) Andrew: The Playboy Prince. Severn House, London 1983. ISBN 0-7278-0988-1 ( about Andrew, Duke of York)
  • The Royal Yacht Britannia. Orbis, London 1984. ISBN 0-85613-715-4 (via the Britannia )
  • Inside Kensington Palace. O'Mara, London 1987. ISBN 0-948397-96-9
  • Duchess. O'Mara, London 1988. ISBN 0-948397-43-8 (via Sarah, Duchess of York)
  • Theirs is the Kingdom: The Wealth of the Windsors. O'Mara, London 1989. ISBN 0-948397-23-3
  • Diana 's Diary. An Intimate Portrait of the Princess of Wales. O'Mara, London 1990. ISBN 1-85479-077-3
  • Inside Buckingham Palace. O'Mara, London 1991. ISBN 1-85479-024-2
  • Diana: Her True Story. O'Mara, London 1992. ISBN 1-85479-191-5 German edition: Diana: Her true story. Translated by Peter Werner. Neff, Vienna 1992. ISBN 3-8118-3921-7
  • German edition: Monica Lewinsky. Your true story. Translated by Jürgen Brust et al. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin, 1999. ISBN 3-550-05016- X
  • German edition: Madonna. Translated by Helmut Lindner. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main, 2001. ISBN 3-8105-1281-8
  • German edition: Tom Cruise. The star and the Scientology conspiracy. Translated by Volker Zenwachs and Joan Reisch man. Earthscan, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-426-27462-0
  • German edition: Angelina Jolie. Translated by Barbara Reitz, Bernhard Jendricke, Thomas Bertram, Sonja Shoemaker. Droemer, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-27532-0.

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