Andrew Lownie

Andrew James Hamilton Lownie FRHistS (born November 1961) is a British biographer and literary agent.

It specialises in non-fiction, representing some 200 authors, and is reported to have "regularly been the top selling agent in the world.

"[9] Lownie has written biographies of writer John Buchan,[10] spy Guy Burgess[11][12] and Lord Mountbatten and his wife Edwina.

The former Edward VIII is alleged by Lownie to have been a Nazi sympathiser who gave aid and comfort to his country’s enemies before and during the Second World War.

[17] Lownie also wrote a literary guide to Edinburgh,[18] and has edited several volumes of John Buchan's works.