Jonathan Glancey is a journalist, author and broadcaster. He was Architecture and Design correspondent of the Guardian from 1997 to 2012 and Architecture and Design Editor of the Independent from 1989 to 1997. An Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he is a member of the Committee of International Architectural Critics (CICA). He writes for the Daily Telegraph among other publications and websites and has spoken at literary festivals from Cowes on the Isle of Wight to Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Spitfire: The Biography, Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner and The Story of Architecture, among others.