Andrew Morton (Author)

Andrew Morton (1989)

Andrew Morton (* 1953 in Dewsbury , West Yorkshire ) is a British journalist and author .

Life

Morton attended school in Leeds and studied history at the University of Sussex . He then trained with various magazines in the Mirror Group and, after completing the training program, worked as a newspaper journalist in Manchester and from 1981 in London . Since 1982 he has worked as a royal court reporter for the British tabloids (including the Daily Mail , News of the World and Daily Star ); from 1983 he also published various books on this subject. In 1988 he left Fleet Street and started working as a freelance book author.

His biography of Diana, Princess of Wales , published in 1992, became a worldwide bestseller (including number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list ), although he was the sources for many details about Diana's unhappy marriage, Charles' affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, and Diana's bulimia not revealed. It was only after Diana's death in 1997 that Morton announced that she was the main source for his biography herself and that she had also edited the manuscript herself. For his book, he was the 1992 London Press Club with the Scoop of the Year and 1993 at the British Book Awards with the award Author of the Year Award.

His 1999 biography of the intern Monica Lewinsky , who became world-famous through the Lewinsky affair , also became a number 1 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 (via Andrew, Duke of York )
• The Royal Yacht Britannia . Orbis, London 1984. ISBN 0-85613-715-4 (via 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: Your true story . Translated by Peter Werner. Neff, Vienna 1992. ISBN 3-8118-3921-7
• Diana: Her New Life . O'Mara, London 1994. ISBN 1-85479-747-6 (revised version 1995: ISBN 1-85479-783-2 )
• Diana: Her True Story. In Her Own Words . O'Mara, London 1997. ISBN 1-85479-270-9 (revised version including Morton's interviews with Diana; also published as Diana: Her True Story. The Commemorative Edition )
• Moi: The Making of an African Statesman . O'Mara, London 1998. ISBN 1-85479-253-9 (via Daniel arap Moi )
• Monica's story . O'Mara, London 1999. ISBN 1-85479-426-4 (via Monica Lewinsky )
  • German edition: Monica Lewinsky. Your real story . Translated by Jürgen Brust et al. Ullstein, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-550-05016-X
• Posh & Becks . O'Mara, London 2000. ISBN 1-85479-599-6 (via David and Victoria Beckham )
• Madonna . O'Mara, London 2001. ISBN 1-85479-888-X (via Madonna )
  • German edition: Madonna . Translated by Helmut Lindner. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2001. ISBN 3-8105-1281-8
• Nine for nine. The Pennsylvania Mine Rescue Miracle . O'Mara, London 2002. ISBN 1-8431-7013-2
• Diana: In Pursuit of Love . O'Mara, London 2004. ISBN 1-8431-7084-1
• Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography . St. Martin's Press, New York 2008. ISBN 978-0-312-35986-7 (via Tom Cruise )
  • German edition: Tom Cruise. The Star and the Scientology Conspiracy . Translated by Volker Zenwachs and Johanna Reischmann. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-426-27462-0
• Angelina: An Unauthorized Biography . St. Martin's Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-312-55561-0 .
  • German edition: Angelina Jolie . Translated by Barbara Reitz, Bernhard Jendricke, Thomas Bertram, Sonja Schuhmacher. Droemer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-27532-0 .
• William & Catherine: Their Story . St. Martin's Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-64340-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official short biography, e.g. B. under Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.britishbookawards.com/pnbb_previouswinners.asp

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrew Morton in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae: Andrew Morton (BBC)