Graham-Yooll, who has died aged 75, nearly paid with his life for such audacity. In London Graham-Yooll contributed to newspapers and then found he could reinvent himself as a writer, and the books started to flow. Graham-Yooll was born in Buenos Aires and grew up in the suburb of Ranelagh, as part of the English-speaking community, the son of an English mother, Inés (nee Tovar), and a Scottish father, Douglas Graham-Yooll, who had emigrated from Leith in 1928. But Graham-Yooll always played down the idea that he and his colleagues at the Herald had been fearless in putting names into print. • Andrew Graham-Yooll, journalist and author, born 5 January 1944; died 6 July 2019

Source: The Guardian July 18, 2019 12:33 UTC