Francis Beckett | |
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Born | Chenies, Buckinghamshire, England | 12 May 1945
Occupation(s) | Journalist, author and contemporary historian |
Known for | Biographies of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown |
Website | francisbeckett.co.uk |
Francis Beckett (born 12 May 1945) is an English author, journalist, biographer, playwright and contemporary historian. He has written biographies of Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Gordon Brown[1] and Tony Blair. He has also written on education for the New Statesman, The Guardian and The Independent and has been the editor of Third Age Matters, the national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. Beckett has been described as "an Old Labour romantic" by Guardian associate editor Michael White.[1]