Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
Life and work
Appleyard was educated at Bolton School[1] and King's College, Cambridge where he read English. He worked at The Times and then became a freelance journalist. He has also written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, New Statesman, and other publications.[2]
In 1992 he published Understanding the Present which evoked polarizing responses.[3] The book explores his views about "science's corrosive effect on morality".[4] One opposing view is that his views are based on a "tangle of misunderstandings" about the concept of science.[5]
His novel The First Church of the New Millennium incorporates many of the themes common in his newspaper columns, "architecture, popular science and the machine age".[6]
He has been three times Feature Writer of the Year and is currently Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards and a former fellow of the World Economic Forum.[2]
Books
- The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (ISBN 0-571-13279-0 (pbk))
- Richard Rogers: a biography (ISBN 0-571-13976-0 (pbk))
- The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (ISBN 0-571-13722-9 )
- Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (ISBN 0-330-32013-0 (pbk))
- The First Church of the New Millennium: a novel (ISBN 0-385-40485-9 )
- Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (ISBN 0-00-257021-1 )
- Aliens: Why They Are Here (ISBN 0-7432-5685-9 )
- How to Live Forever or Die Trying - Published 22 Jan 2007 Simon & Schuster (ISBN 978-0-7432-6868-4)
- The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World - Published 2011 - (ISBN 978-0-297-86030-3)
- "Bedford Park" Published 2013 - (ISBN 978-1-780-22838-9)
References
- ↑ boltonschool.org
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-01-09. Retrieved 2014-08-09. IBPC
- ↑ Zarandi, Mehrdad M. (2003). Science and the Myth of Progress. World Wisdom, Inc. pp. 235–. ISBN 9780941532471. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
- ↑ Agar, Nicholas (2001). Life's Intrinsic Value: Science, Ethics, and Nature. Columbia University Press. pp. 21–. ISBN 9780231117869. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
- ↑ Dennis Alexander (1993-02). "Science and Scientism". ThirdWay. Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd. pp. 21–. Retrieved 19 July 2014. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Wheen, Francis (1996-06-17). Lord Gnome's Literary Companion. Verso. pp. 155–. ISBN 9781859840450. Retrieved 19 July 2014.