Patrick Marnham is an English writer , journalist and biographer . He is primarily known for his biographies , where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera , Georges Simenon , Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley . As a journalist , he has written for '' Private Eye '' , '' The Independent '' and '' The Spectator '' among others . He served as Literary Editor of '' The Spectator '' and Paris correspondent of '' The Independent '' . His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Marsh Biography Award . Along with Richard West and Auberon Waugh , Marnham was one of three signatories to a letter to '' The Times '' that called for a British monument to honour those repatriated as a result of the Yalta Conference , it was eventually erected in 1986
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Patrick Marnham