![]() ![]() ![]() While researching for his book on the Mountbattens, Lownie found himself blocked by the Cabinet Office and University of Southampton, despite public money being used in 2011 to acquire their archive to "ensure public access". He has published biographies of writer John Buchan, spy Guy Burgess and Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina. It specialises in non-fiction, representing some 200 authors, and is reported to have "regularly been the top selling agent in the world." Lownie founded his eponymous literary agency in 1988. His dissertation at Edinburgh was titled: Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess. He has a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He was educated at Westminster School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was President of the Cambridge Union in Easter term 1984. His father was judge Ralph Hamilton Lownie of Largo (1924-2007). Andrew James Hamilton Lownie FRHistS (born November 1961) is a British biographer and literary agent. ![]()
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