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Frank McLynn, born Francis James McLynn on the 29th of August 1941, is a British author, biographer, historian, and journalist. He is best known for biographies of Napoleon, Carl Jung, Robert Louis Stevenson, Richard Francis Burton, and Henry Morton Stanley.
McLynn won an Open Scholarship in Classics to Wadham College, Oxford, but switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) after arriving. He later described history and literature as his first loves, but chose PPE because he felt those subjects would always be part of his life regardless.
McLynn won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1985 for The Jacobite Army in England, 1745-46. His 1988 biography of Charles Edward Stuart was also shortlisted for the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.
McLynn held positions at King's College London as an assistant lecturer from 1972 to 1974, at Humboldt State University from 1977 to 1978, as an Alistair Horne Research Fellow at St Antony's, Oxford from 1987 to 1988, as a visiting professor at Strathclyde University from 1996 to 2001, and as a professorial fellow at Goldsmith's College, London from 2000 to 2002.
Frank McLynn's Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography, published in 1997, was shortlisted for the NCR Book Award.
McLynn spent two years in Colombia as deputy director of the British Council and a subsequent year in Argentina as a Parry/Ford Foundation Fellow. He was awarded a PhD in the early 1970s for a thesis on Argentina in the 1860s, and later published Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution in 2000.