Lewis Chester

Lewis Chester was born in London's East End. After national service - as an army PT instructor he read history at Oxford. He was an award-winning journalist at the Sunday Times where he headed the Insight investigation team. He has written twenty non-fiction books, most of them biographies. His biographical subjects have included Lew Grade, Martin Luther King Jnr, Lord Beaverbrook, Aristotle Onassis and Howard Hughes, along with the anti-apartheid campaigner, the Rev. Michael Scott and three of his own contemporaries on the Sunday Times: the illustrator Roger Law who created the Spitting Image satire show; Murray Sayle the paper's legendary foreign correspondent, and Don McCullin, the war photographer.