Rory MacLean
- January 8, 2024
- Writer
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Rory MacLean Biography
| Name | Rory MacLean |
| Birthday | Nov 5 |
| Birth Year | 1954 |
| Home Town | Vancouver |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
| Parents | Andrew Dyas MacLean |
Rory MacLean is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on November 5, 1954 in Vancouver, Canada. Rory MacLean, FRSL was born 5 November 1954. He is a British-Canadian travel writer and historian who lives in Berlin. His most well-known works include Stalin’s Nose (a travelogue through Eastern Europe following the fall of Berlin Wall); Magic Bus, a history and account of the Asia Overland Hippie Trail; and Berlin: Imagine a City which is a portrait of Berlin over 500 years. John le Carre stated that MacLean was “certainly the outstanding, most indefatigable traveller-writer our time.”
MacLean, in Falling for Icarus (2004) moved to Crete to build and fly once a flying machine. He was trying to make peace with his mother’s death and examine the relevance of Greek mythology for modern life. Maclean’s book Magic Bus (2006) follows the trail of many young Westerners who, in the 1960s-70s, blazed the “hippie trail” from Istanbul to India. Maclean’s seventh book, Missing Lives (with Nick Danziger), (2010) featured the stories of fifteen people who were missing during the Yugoslav Wars. His tenth book, Berlin – Imagine a City (2014), is a nonfictional history of Berlin.
When the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival commissioned The Freedom Papers from 51 writers to explore ideas related to freedom, Maclean wrote a bleak essay about daily life in North Korea being a “scripted performance”. He read this on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week strand.
The Oatmeal Ark, his second book (1997), explored immigrant dreams in Canada and Scotland. It was nominated to the International Dublin Literary Award. MacLean traveled to Burma when the opportunity presented itself to meet Aung San Suu Kyi (Nobel Prize laureate). Under the Dragon (1998) was a story about that country. It won an Arts Council Award for Writers in 1997.
Rory MacLean Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Rory MacLean is one of the richest Writer from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Rory MacLean 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
MacLean was the son of Andrew Dyas MacLean, a Canadian newspaper publisher, and Joan Howe. Joan Howe was a former secretary to Ian Fleming, author at The Times, and part-inspiration behind the fictional James Bond character Miss Moneypenny. He was raised in Toronto and graduated from Ryerson University and Upper Canada College. He was involved in film productions for ten years, including with Ken Russell and David Hemmings in England, Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie in Berlin. He won The Independent’s inaugural travel writing contest in 1989 and switched from writing screenplays to prose. He published nine books about travel in the UK and then wrote Berlin: Imagine a City. There he also blogged for the Meet the Germans website. Jan Morris, who was publishing his 15th book Pravda ha Ha: True Travels from the End of Europe, wrote that “This is an incredible thing that MacLean has created; a new type of history in many dimensions and innumerable moods that adds up over the span of his books to a great, continuing work of literature.” He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
MacLean’s 1992 first book, Stalin’s Nose, told the story about a trip from Berlin to Moscow by a Trabant. It was a UK bestseller and won the Best First Work award of the Yorkshire Post. It was described by William Dalrymple as “the most remarkable debut in travel writing since Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia”. Colin Thubron deemed the book a “surreal masterpiece”.
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) 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. MacLean and Danziger also collaborated on Another Life (Unbound, London, 2017), following 15 impoverished families in eight countries over 15 years to examine the effect of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals on lives lived on the edge, as well as British Council pluralism projects in Myanmar and North Korea.
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