Francis Younghusband
French is the author of several books including: "Younghusband: the Last Great Imperial Adventurer" (1994), a biography of Francis Younghusband; "The World Is What It Is" (2008), an authorised biography of Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States of America; and "India: A Portrait" (2011).