Andrew Brown (writer)

Andrew Brown
Born1955 (age 68–69)
London, England
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • editor
  • broadcaster
LanguageEnglish
Notable worksFishing in Utopia
Notable awardsOrwell Prize
Website
thewormbook.com/elegans/hlog

Andrew Brown (born 1955 in London) is an English journalist, writer, and editor.[1] He was one of the founding staff members of The Independent, where he worked as a religious correspondent, parliamentary sketch writer, and a feature writer. [2] He has written extensively on technology for Prospect and the New Statesman and been a feature writer on The Guardian.[3] He has worked as the editor for the Belief section of The Guardian's Comment is Free, which won a Webby under his leadership,[4] and is currently a leader writer and member of the paper's editorial board. He is also the press columnist of the Church Times.[5] In The Beginning was the Worm (2004) was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. Fishing in Utopia (2008) won the Orwell Prize and was nominated for the Dolman Best Travel Book Award in 2009.

Brown is the son of Bletchley Park codebreaker Patricia Bartley.[6]

  1. ^ "Sweden's magic, its women - and its fish". The Spectator. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Third Annual Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-04-10. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  3. ^ "Third Annual Temoleton–Cambridge Fellowships" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  4. ^ "Religion & Spirituality".
  5. ^ Rausing, Sigrid (June 29, 2009). "The death of a dream". New Statesman.
  6. ^ "At 96, my mother is one of the last surviving Bletchley Park codebreakers | Andrew Brown". TheGuardian.com. 28 March 2014.