Ben Macintyre

Historian

Birthday December 25, 1963

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Oxford, England

Age 60 years old

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About

British historian and author who has had various historical books published to critical acclaim. His 2020 novel Agen Sonya was a BBC Radio 4 book of the week. He was named to the Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist for his 2018 work The Spy and the Traitor.

Before Fame

He earned a history degree from St John's College at Cambridge University in 1985.

Trivia

His 2017 book Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS was his fifth work to be made into a BBC documentary. In 1998, he was honored on the Edgar Allen Poe Awards shortlist for his book The Napoleon of Crime.

Family Life

He has three children with his wife. He has an older sister and younger brother. 

Associated With

He wrote an illustrated profile of Ian Fleming in 2008 for the exhibit For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond at the Imperial War Museum in London, England