 A biography of Simon Raven, "The Captain", written by Michael Barber, was published in 1996.Raven's obituary in "The Guardian" noted that, "he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester", and that he reminded Noel Annan, his Cambridge tutor, of the young Guy Burgess.Among the many things said about him, perhaps the most quoted was that he had "the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel".