NAPOLEON A Biography

Frank McLynn was educated at Wadham

College, Oxford, and the University of London.

He was Alistair Horne Research Fellow at St

Antony's College, Oxford, in 1987-88, and is

currendy Visiting Professor in the Department

of Literature at Strathclyde University. A fulltime wr iter, he is the author of biographies of

H.M. Stanley and Richard Burton, as well as

several books relating to the Jacobite movement,

including Charles Edward Stuart, which was

shordisted for the 1989 McVitie's Pr ize for

Scottish Writer of the Year, and The Jacobite Army

in England, which won the 1985 Cheltenham

Pr ize for Literature. His most recent books are

Hearts cif Darkness: The European Exploration cif

Africa, Robert Louis Stevenson (both also available

from Pimlico), Fitzroy Maclean and Carl Gustav

]ung, which was shordisted for the 1997 NCR

Award.