14 Facts About Francis Wheen

Francis James Baird Wheen was born on 22 January 1957 and is a British journalist, writer and broadcaster.

Francis Wheen is the author of several books, including a biography of Karl Marx which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999, and has been translated into twenty languages.

Francis Wheen followed this with a notional "biography" of Das Kapital, which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes.

Francis Wheen writes for Private Eye and is currently the magazine's deputy editor.

Francis Wheen's collected journalism, Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies, won him the Orwell Prize in 2003.

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Francis Wheen has been a regular columnist for the London Evening Standard.

Francis Wheen has several times been a guest on Have I Got News for You.

Francis Wheen wrote a docudrama, The Lavender List, for BBC Four on the final period of Harold Wilson's premiership, concentrating on his relationship with Marcia Williams, which first screened in March 2006.

Francis Wheen supported NATO's Kosovo intervention in 1999, signed the Euston Manifesto for a realignment of progressive politics and supported the second Iraq War.

Francis Wheen maintained that Anelay's approach was motivated by her wish to sell arms to the Saudi regime.

Francis Wheen was married to the writer Joan Smith between 1985 and 1993.

Francis Wheen has been the partner for 27 years of Julia Jones since the mid-1990s whom he married in 2019; they have two sons.

Francis Wheen described his experience as less serious than that of other victims, and had only become aware of the scale of Napier's activities later.

Francis Wheen was a close friend of the writer Christopher Hitchens.