For the Irish Roman Catholic bishop, see Patrick French (bishop).
Patrick French
Born
Patrick Rollo Basil French (1966-05-28)28 May 1966 Aldershot, England
Died
16 March 2023(2023-03-16) (aged 56) London, England
Occupation
Historian
Alma mater
University of Edinburgh (MA, PhD)
Subjects
India
Nepal
Notable works
The World Is What It Is (2008)
Notable awards
National Book Critics Circle Award
Somerset Maugham Award
Hawthornden Prize
Spouse
Abigail Ashton-Johnson
(divorced)
Meru Gokhale
Children
4
Patrick Rollo Basil French (28 May 1966 – 16 March 2023) was a British writer, historian and academician. He was the author of several books including: Younghusband: the Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; The World Is What It Is (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States of America;[1] and India: A Portrait (2011).
During the 1992 general election, French was a Green Party candidate for Parliament. He sat on the executive committee of Free Tibet, a Tibet Support Group UK, and was a founding member of the inter-governmental India–UK Round Table.[2][failed verification]
^"Patrick French". Penguin Random House. Archived from the original on 13 July 2010. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
^"Patrick French Books – Biography and List of Works – Author of 'Dreams and Memories Of a Lost Land'". Biblio.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
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