Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese (Poppy) Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family.
“Not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional and not quite secure.” A graduate of Eton and Oxford, Pryce-Jones served as Literary Editor at the Financial Times and the Spectator, a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review.
Among his many learned and elegantly written volumes are studies of Communism such as The Strange Death of the Soviet Union, of Nazism such as Paris in the Third Reich, and of the world of Islam such as The Closed Circle. He is also the author of nine novels and a memoir entitled Fault Lines. He and his wife Clarissa Caccia live in London.
