Bryan Appleyard is an Englishman, born in Manchester and educated at Bolton School and King’s College, Cambridge. He was at The Times as Financial News Editor and Deputy Arts Editor from 1976 to 1984 and has worked as a freelance journalist since then. He is currently a special feature writer, commentator, reviewer and columnist for The Sunday Times.

As far as we know, Appleyard is not himself a poet; at least we’ve not been able to locate any poems written by him either posted or mentioned on the Internet. As for his writings about poetry, we have found only one article online: his recent review of John Ashbery for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Interested readers may want to browse through his blog, “Thought Experiments,” to get a sense of his literary predilections.

To purchase Appleyard’s books, use these shopping links:

• The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (Faber & Faber, 1984)
  
• Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (Picador, 1992; Doubleday, 1993)
  
• Brave New Worlds: Staying Human in the Genetic Future (Viking, 1998)
  

Appleyard has written several other books that don’t seem to be available online, although you might find them in a bookstore near you:

• Richard Rogers: a biography (Faber & Faber, 1986)
• The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (Faber and Faber, 1990)
• The First Church of the New Millennium: a novel (Doubleday, 1994)
• Aliens: Why They Are Here (Simon & Schuster, 2005)
• How to Live Forever or Die Trying (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

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