Andrew James Hamilton Lownie is Writer, Journalist, since 1985. Kenyan literary agent.
Andrew James Hamilton is Son of Ralph Hamilton and Claudine Therese (Lecrocq) Lownie. Master of Arts, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England, 1984. Master of Science, Edinburgh University, 1989. Director John Farquharson Literary Agents, 1986-1988. Managing…
director Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, since 1988. Director Denniston & Lownie, 1991-1993, Thistle Public, since 1996.
Vice chairman Conservative Group for Europe, 1992-1995. Тrustee Iain Macleod award, 1986, secretary Biographers Club, 1997-2008.
Andrew Lownie was born in 1961 and was educated in Britain and America. He read history at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was President of the Union. He went on to gain an MSc at Edinburgh University and spend a year at the College of Law in London.
After a period as a bookseller and journalist, he began his publishing career as the graduate trainee at Hodder & Stoughton. In 1985 became an agent at John Farquharson, now part of Curtis Brown, and the following year became the then youngest director in British publishing when he was appointed a director.
Since 1984 he has written and reviewed for a range of newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Spectator and Guardian, which has given him good journalistic contacts.
As an author himself, most notably of a biography of John Buchan and a literary companion to Edinburgh, he has an understanding of the issues and problems affecting writers. He is a member of the Association of Authors' Agents and Society of Authors and was until recently the literary agent to the international writers' organisation PEN. In 1998 he founded The Biographers Club, a monthly dining society for biographers and those involved in promoting biography, and The Biographers' Club Prize which supports first-time biographers.
Andrew Lownie, the bestselling literary agent in the world according to Publishers Marketplace, was short-listed for The Bookseller UK literary agent of the year in 2014 and 2015. He has run his own agency, the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency, since 1988 having previously been a director of Curtis Brown and worked as a bookseller, journalist and publisher. He has served on the committee of EnglishPen and in 1997 founded the Biographers Club, a networking organisation for biographers of which he is now President. He is also the author himself of several books, including Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess.
