Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, reviewer[1] and columnist for The Times newspaper.

Macintyre was born on 25 December 1963, in Oxford, the elder son[2] of Angus Donald Macintyre (d. 1994), a fellow and tutor in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford, who was elected principal of Hertford College, Oxford before his death in a car accident, author of the first scholarly work on the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell, general editor of the Oxford Historical Monographs series from 1971 to 1979, editor of The English Historical Review from 1978 to 1986, and Chairman of the Governors of Magdalen College School from 1987 to 1990, and Joanna, daughter of Sir Richard Musgrave Harvey, 2nd Baronet and a descendant of Berkeley Paget.

[5] Macintyre was educated at Abingdon School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in history in 1985.

[citation needed] Five of Macintyre's books have been made into documentaries for the BBC: In 2021, Operation Mincemeat, a cinematic adaptation of Macintyre's 2010's homonymous book, subtitled The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II, premiered at Australia's British Film Festival, and was released to the public in 2022.

[22] In April 2023 it was announced that the team behind A Spy Among Friends (actor Damian Lewis and director Alexander Cary) is developing further television dramas based on Macintyre books.