Biography
Sinclair did his National Service with the Coldstream Guards and wrote a novel and later a screenplay based on the experience called The Breaking of Bumbo (1959).
He directed the film, now regarded as a classic, of Under Milk Wood. His book The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1967. His biographies have covered a wide variety of famous people: Che Guevara, Dylan Thomas, Jack London, John Ford, J Pierpont Morgan, Francis Bacon, etc. Sinclair is married to the writer Sonia Melchett.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1972
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