# Andrew Barrow

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'''Andrew Barrow''' (born 11 May 1945, in Lancaster, England) is a British journalist and author. His ''[The Tap Dancer](/source/The_Tap_Dancer)'' won the 1993 [Hawthornden Prize](/source/Hawthornden_Prize) and the [McKitterick Prize](/source/McKitterick_Prize) for the best [first novel](/source/debut_novel) by an author aged over 40.<ref>An Almanack Joseph Whitaker 1993 - Snippet view - More editions Andrew Barrow's The Tap Dancer won the Mc- Kirterick Prize for the best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize.</ref>

==List of works==
* ''Gossip: A History of High Society from 1920 to 1970'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1978)
* ''The Flesh is Weak: An Intimate History of the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England)'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1980)
* ''International Gossip: A History of High Society from 1970 to 1980'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1983)
* ''The Gossip Family Handbook'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1984)
* ''The Great Book of Small Talk'' (Fourth Estate, 1987)
* ''The Tap Dancer'' (Duckworth, 1992)
* ''The Man in the Moon'' (Macmillan, 1996)
* ''[Quentin](/source/Quentin_Crisp) and [Philip](/source/Philip_O'Connor): A Double Portrait'' (Macmillan, 2002)
* ''Animal Magic. A Brother's Story'' (Jonathan Cape, 2011)
* ''The Great Book of Mobile Talk'' (Square Peg, 2013)

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