Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous creative nonfiction writers. His 10 books, including UK bestsellers STALIN'S NOSE and UNDER THE DRAGON. have challenged and invigorated the genre, and --- according to the late John Fowles --- are among works that "marvellously explain why literature still lives." He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He has also written and presented over 50 BBC radio programmes and worked on movies with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Rory divides his time between Berlin, Dorset and London where he is writer-in-residence at the Archive of Modern Conflict, weaving narratives into its collection of four million photographs.

Books by Rory MacLean

Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries

by Rory MacLean - History, Nonfiction

BERLIN is a history book that reflects the nature of the city itself. In its architecture, through its literature, in its movies and songs, Berliners have conjured their hard capital into a place of fantastic human fantasy. No other city has so often surrendered itself to its own seductive myths. No other city has been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations. BERLIN captures, portrays and propagates the story of those myths and their makers.