Brian Moynahan

{{Short description|English journalist, historian and biographer (1941–2018)}}

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Brian Moynahan (30 March 1941{{Cite web |url=http://oldshirburnian.org.uk/brian-moynahan-a-54-59/ |title=The Old Shirburnian Society - Moynahan, Brian Patrick James (A 54-59) |access-date=2018-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629155707/http://oldshirburnian.org.uk/brian-moynahan-a-54-59/ |archive-date=2018-06-29 |url-status=dead }} – 1 April 2018) was an English journalist, historian and biographer.{{Cite news|url=https://www.petersfraserdunlop.com/clients/brian-moynahan/|title=Brian Moynahan - Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD)|work=Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD)|access-date=2018-04-15|language=en-GB}} He was born in 1941, the son of the dermatologist Edmund Moynahan of Guy's and Great Ormond Street Hospitals.Dictionary of medical eponyms, Moynahan syndromes I, II, III, proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1962, 1970. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar and editor of the student magazines Cambridge Opinion and Broadsheet. He graduated in 1962 with a double First in history.Cover of: Brian Moynahan: God's Bestseller. New York, 2003.

He was a leader writer with The Yorkshire Post before covering wars in Vietnam, Laos and Borneo, the violencia in Colombia and the American intervention in the Dominican Republic, for Town Magazine, and The Times.Author Spotlight, Random House Inc. He also wrote on industry and business in the Far East. He was editor of Town before joining the staff of The Sunday Times in 1968.

As a foreign correspondent, Moynahan covered the Arab-Israeli, Ethiopian and Lebanese conflicts, as well as events in Europe and Russia. He was latterly The Sunday Times Europe editor,Brian Unsworth, National Catholic Register, 21 March 2003 based in Paris, before concentrating on writing books.

These include the award-winning history, The Russian Century,Perseus Book Group, 23 December 1999.Lire magazine The Faith, a history of Christianity, If God Spare My Life, a biography of William Tyndale, described as "a triumph, authoritative, vital, passionate, closely attentive to the sources"Adam Nicolson, Evening Standard and the best-selling Airport International and Jungle Soldier. His last book, Leningrad Siege and Symphony, an account of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, was a Spectator Book of The Year.The Spectator, 16 December 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/books/review/leningrad-siege-and-symphony-by-brian-moynahan.html|title='Leningrad: Siege and Symphony,' by Brian Moynahan|last=Reich|first=Rebecca|date=2014-11-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-04-15|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}