joyous, irreverent, insightful celebration of the Beatles, a highly original take on familiar territory. [...] It’s also a profound book about success and failure which won the unanimous support of our judges. Craig Brown has reinvented the art of biography". Personal life Brown's wife is the author Frances Welch, daughter of the journalist Colin Welch. They have two children. Frances Welch's niece is the singer Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. Bibliography Books 1981 – The Dirty Bits (Deutsch, ) 1983 – The Book of Royal Lists (Simon & Schuster, ) 1984 – The Marsh–Marlowe Letters: The correspondence of Gerald Marsh and Sir Harvey Marlowe (Heinemann, ) 1993 – Craig Brown's Greatest Hits (Century, ) 1994 – The Hounding of John Thomas, a sequel to Lady Chatterley's Lover (Century, ) 1998 – Hug Me While I Weep for I Weep for the World, by "Bel Littlejohn" (Little, Brown, ) 1998 – The Little Book of Chaos (Time Warner, ) 1999 – The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery by Kyril Bonfiglioli, completed by Craig Brown (Black Spring Press, ) 2003 – This Is Craig Brown (Ebury Press, ) 2004 – Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends': The Collected Parodies 2000–2004 (Private Eye, ) 2005 – 1966 and All That (Hodder & Stoughton, ) 2006 – The Tony Years (Ebury Press, ) 2010 – The Lost Diaries (Fourth Estate, ) 2012 – One on One (Fourth Estate, ) 2017 – Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret (Fourth Estate, 2020 – One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time (Fourth Estate, ) Book reviews References Interview: The Beatles. Una biografía de historias olvidadas – La Nación newspaper, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2021. External links This Is Craig Brown – BBC page Craig Brown and Friends at Private Eye 1957 births Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol English comedy writers English humorists English satirists People educated at Eton College Private Eye contributors The Guardian journalists The New York Review of Books people The Sunday Times people The Times people British restaurant critics British humorists