Andrew Sinclair (1) (1935–2019)

Author of The Sword and the Grail: Of the Grail and the Templars and a True Discovery of America

For other authors named Andrew Sinclair, see the disambiguation page.

61+ Works 1,351 Members 17 Reviews

About the Author

Andrew Sinclair has studied or taught at Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford and Columbia Universities. He has been a publisher and a film director (his film of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, starring Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton is also a, classic) and has written many successful show more novels. He is the author of a number of historical works including Prohibition: The Era of Excess and The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman as well as Dylan the Bard, a biography of Dylan Thomas, and biographies of Warren G. Harding, Jack London, J. P. Morgan and John Ford. show less

Image credit: Andrew Sinclair, author of "Rosslyn" and "The Sword and the Grail"

Series

Albion Triptych

Works by Andrew Sinclair

Guevara (1970) 80 copies

Gog (1967) 61 copies

Jack: An Autobiography of Jack London (1979) 60 copies

The Secret Scroll (2001) 58 copies

The Discovery of the Grail (1998) 57 copies

Jerusalem: The Endless Crusade (1995) 54 copies

Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas (1975) 54 copies

An Anatomy of Terror: A History of Terrorism (2000) 51 copies

The Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business and Duck Soup (Classic film scripts) (1972) — Editor — 40 copies

Death by Fame: A Life of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (1998) 36 copies

Prohibition: The Era of Excess (1962) 35 copies

The Breaking of Bumbo (1959) 35 copies

Royal Web: The Story of Princess Victoria and Frederick of Prussia (1982) 31 copies

Francis Bacon: His Life And Violent Times (1993) 30 copies

My Friend Judas (1959) 30 copies

Rosslyn (2005) 30 copies

The Emancipation of the American Woman (1966) 28 copies

John Ford (1979) 28 copies

War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the 'Forties (1989) 27 copies

The Red and the Blue: Cambridge, Treason and Intelligence (1986) 26 copies

The available man; the life behind the masks of Warren Gamaliel Harding (1965) 25 copies

A Concise History of the United States (1967) 25 copies

Corsair: The life of J. Pierpont Morgan (1981) 22 copies

The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe (1979) 21 copies

Under milk wood (1972) 18 copies

The Grail: The Quest for a Legend (1997) 18 copies

King Ludd (1988) 17 copies

Sir Walter Raleigh and the Age of Discovery (1984) 17 copies

Under Milk Wood [1971 film] (1972) — Director — 15 copies

Magog (1972) 13 copies

The other Victoria: The Princess Royal and the great game of Europe (1982) 13 copies

Dylan Thomas: Poet of his people (1975) 13 copies

The Raker (2013) 12 copies

Spiegel: The Man Behind the Pictures (1987) 11 copies

The Savage: A History of Misunderstanding (1977) 8 copies

Man and Horse: Four Thousand Years of the Mounted Warrior (2008) 8 copies

The last of the best : the aristocracy of Europe in the twentieth century. (1969) 8 copies

Viva Che!: The Strange Death and Life of Che Guevara (2006) 8 copies

Adventures in the Skin Trade (1967) — Adapter — 7 copies

The Breaking of Bumbo [1970 film] (1970) — Director — 6 copies

Project (Archway Paperback) (1985) 6 copies

The War Decade: An Anthology of the 1940's (1989) 6 copies

Selections from the Greek anthology (1967) 5 copies

In Love and Anger (1994) 5 copies

The Surrey cat (1976) 4 copies

A patriot for hire (1978) 3 copies

Blood & Kin : An Empire Saga (2001) 3 copies

The Need to Give: Patron and the Arts (1990) 3 copies

The Greek Anthology: The Wit and Wisdom of the Sons of Hellas (1967) 3 copies

Beau Bumbo (1985) 2 copies

The Paradise Bum 2 copies

Arts and Cultures: The History of the 50 Years of the Arts Council of Great Britain (1995) 2 copies

Blue Blood [1974 film] (1973) — Director — 2 copies

Down Under Milk Wood: Of Burton and Taylor, O'Toole and Others, Dylan and Me (1758) 2 copies

The Boxes of Andrew Sinclair 1 copy

Geïllustreerde geschiedenis van Amerika 1 copy

The Far Corners of the Earth (1991) 1 copy

Patron is not a Dirty Word. (1990) 1 copy

The Art of Earth and Fire (2017) 1 copy

The British Horror Film Collection (Blue Blood; The Legacy; Neither the Sea Nor the Sand) [DVD] — Director — 1 copy

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Associated Works

Martin Eden (1909) — Introduction, some editions — 1,941 copies

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (1903) — Editor, some editions — 858 copies

The Third Man (Screenplay) (1901) — Introduction, some editions — 130 copies

The Rack (1958) — Introduction — 125 copies

Tales of the Pacific (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) (1989) — Introduction, some editions — 93 copies

The Grand Illusion [script] (1968) — Translator, some editions — 13 copies

The Pearl Fishers (Lyric Opera of Chicago 19-XI-2017) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Sinclair, Andrew
Legal name: Sinclair, Andrew Annandale
Birthdate: 1935-01-21
Date of death: 2019-05-30
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Oxford, England, UK
Places of residence: London, England, UK
Education: Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge University (BA|1958|Ph.D|1963)
Occupations: novelist
historian
critic
filmmaker
publisher
Relationships: Alexandre, Marianne (1st spouse)
Seymour, Miranda (2nd spouse)
Melchett, Sonia (3rd spouse)
Organizations: Timon Films
Lorrimer Publishing
University College London
Churchill College, Cambridge University [founding member]
Association of Cinematographers and Television Technicians
Coldstream Guards, British Army
Awards and honors: Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1972)
Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts
Somerset Maugham Award (1967)
Fellow, Society of American Historians

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Reviews

La espada y el grial (coleccion Nuevos temas 101) by Andrew Sinclair

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archivomorero | 1 other review | Jun 27, 2022 |

The Sword and the Grail: The Story of the Grail,… by Andrew Sinclair

Hmmm, The Sword and the Grail appears to be an attempt at alternative history, where the author posits that an ancestor, Prince Henry St Clair of Orkney, travelled to North America long before Columbus. The usual suspects make an appearance; The Knights Templar, the Masons and Rosslyn Chapel, amongst others, and a lot of circumstantial evidence at best is deemed fact.

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MiaCulpa | 1 other review | Aug 31, 2021 |

Corsair : the life of J. Pierpont Morgan by Andrew Sinclair

Morgan, John Pierpoint (Subject)

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LOM-Lausanne | 2 other reviews | Apr 30, 2020 |

Under Milk Wood by Andrew Sinclair

Despite being conceived of as a "play for voices" Dylan Thomas' marvellously poetic words still come across wonderfully in this whimsical adaptation of his famous tone poem. The rich language is to the fore as the film spends a day in the small Welsh fishing village of "Llareggub" (read it backwards) where a host of characters move in and out of focus: the blind Captain Tom Cat (Peter O'Toole) transfixed in a dream of his lost love, the beautiful prostitute Rosie Probert (Elizabeth Taylor); Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard (Sian Phillips) still abusing her two dead husbands; the wistfully innocent Myfanwy Price (Glynis Johns) and floating above it all, Richard Burton's fabulous pronunciation and poetic cadences as First Voice. Although Dylan Thomas' words and superb language construction will always work best as a spoken word piece, director Andrew Sinclair still manages an excellent stab at bringing the whole thing to wonderful, vibrant and eccentric cinematic life.… (more)