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 and doctorate 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. He set up the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency in 1988, and has become arguably the best-known UK agent to specialise in non-fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-936747","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n