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Bryan Appleyard CBE (born 24 August 1951, Manchester) is a British journalist and author.
Appleyard was educated at Bolton School[1] and King's College, Cambridge. He worked at The Times and as a freelance journalist and has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, London's The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and the New Statesman.[2]
In 1992 he published the book Understanding the Present.[3]
His 1996 novel is called The First Church of the New Millennium.[4] Appleyard has been selected as Feature Writer of the Year three times as well as Interviewer of the Year in the British Press Awards and he is a former fellow of the World Economic Forum.[2]
Appleyard was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and the arts.[5]
- The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts (1984) (ISBN 0-571-13279-0 (pbk))
- Richard Rogers: A Biography (1986) (ISBN 0-571-13976-0 (pbk))
- The Pleasures of Peace: Art and Imagination in Postwar Britain (1989) (ISBN 0-571-13722-9)
- Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man (1992) (ISBN 0-330-32013-0 (pbk))
- The First Church of the New Millennium: A Novel (1995) (ISBN 0-385-40485-9 )
- Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience (1999) (ISBN 0-00-257021-1 )
- Aliens: Why They Are Here (2005) (ISBN 0-7432-5685-9 )
- How to Live Forever or Die Trying (2007) (ISBN 978-0-7432-6868-4)
- The Brain is Wider Than the Sky: Why Simple Solutions Don't Work in a Complex World (2011) (ISBN 978-0-297-86030-3)
- Bedford Park (2013) (ISBN 978-1-780-22838-9)
- The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World (2022) (ISBN 978-1-474-61539-6)
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