Lewis Chester

Born in London in 1937, Lewis Chester and got his degree in history from the University of Oxford. He came to the Sunday Times of London in 1962 and was reporter and editor of its award-winning “Insight” team. Lewis has had a long, distinguished career as a journalist and author of biographies and histories. He’s written biographies of people such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Howard Hughes, and Aristotle Onassis, as well as accounts of Watergate and the wars in the Middle East. His biographical subjects have included Lew Grade, the anti-apartheid campaigner, the Rev. Michael Scott and three of his own contemporaries on the Sunday Times: the illustrator Roger Law who created the Spitting Image satire show; Murray Sayle the paper's legendary foreign correspondent, and Don McCullin, the war photographer.