Patrick French

Patrick Rollo Basil French was a British writer, historian and academician. He was the author of several books including: Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; The World Is What It Is (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul that won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States; and India: A Portrait (2011).