Mark Bryant

Dr Mark Bryant was born in Dorset, is a philosophy graduate of London University and has a PhD in History from the University of Kent. After more than a decade in literary and academic book publishing he turned freelance in 1987, working as an editor, writer, journalist, lecturer and exhibition curator. In addition, he is the author of several books - including Dictionary of 20th Century British Cartoonists & Caricaturists, Dictionary of Riddles and Private Lives: Curious Facts About the Famous and Infamous. He has also edited/compiled more than 30 anthologies of verse, short-stories and cartoons, and has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and various encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers and journals. Secretary of the London Press Club since 2000 he is also editor of the Club's magazine, Press News, and its website. He lives in south-west London.