Hunter Davies OBE is the author of the only ever authorised biography of The Beatles, first published in 1968 and still in print in almost every country in the world. In 2012 he edited The Lennon Letters, published in 20 different foreign countries, and in 2014 The Beatles Lyrics. He is the author of more than 30 other books, including novels, biographies, travel and children’s titles. As a journalist, he has written for Punch, the Guardian and the Sunday times, and continues to contribute to the New Statesman. He lives between a home in North London and a Dutch barge on the Isle of Wight.
