Alexander
Waugh was born in 1963. After reading Music at Manchester
University he worked for two years as an impresario
and concert agent. He was the Chief Opera Critic of
the Mail on Sunday (1990-91) and at the Evening
Standard (1991-1996) and has written many books
on music including the best-selling Classical
Music, A New Way of Listening (1995)
which was translated into fourteen foreign languages.
He reviews books regularly for most of the major British
newspapers and has contributed cartoons to the Literary
Review and the Daily Telegraph. His
books Time (1999) and God (2002)
were published to worldwide acclaim while his biography
Fathers and Sons (2004) a portrait of the
male relations in his own family, was made into 90-minute
documentary film by BBC 4. In 2006 he presented
another documentary called The Piano – a
Love Affair also for BBC 4. His theatre
piece Bon Voyage! (co-written with his brother
Nathaniel) won the 12th Vivian Ellis Award for Best
New Musical. As a classical record producer he has
been responsible for a host of prize-winning discs
including five MRA Awards and a French Grand Prix
du Disque. As a publisher of the innovative fold-up
Travelman Short Stories he won the Design
Council Millennium Award for 2000. His new bookThe
House of Wittgenstein will be published in 2008.
