Rory MacLean FRSL (born 5 November 1954)[1] is a British-Canadian[2] historian and travel writer who lives and works in Berlin and the United Kingdom.
After completing nine travel books in the UK he wrote Berlin: Imagine a City in the capital where he blogged for the Meet the Germans website of the Goethe-Institut.
[10] [11] MacLean's first book, Stalin's Nose (1992), told the story of a journey from Berlin to Moscow in a Trabant and became a UK top ten best-seller, winning the Yorkshire Post's Best First Work prize.
When the chance arose to meet the Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, MacLean travelled to Burma.
[19] MacLean worked with photographer Nick Danziger on books Missing Lives (International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 2010) and Beneath the Carob Trees (CMP, Nicosia, 2016)[20] about the tens of thousands of Europeans who vanished in the Yugoslav Wars and the Cyprus conflict, and the use of DNA to enable the relatives of missing persons to recover the remains of their loved ones and so help to restore trust between communities.