Max Egremont was born in 1948 and studied History at Oxford University. He has written biographies, novels and books on history and has travelled extensively in the Baltic region.

His Forgotten land, Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia was published in Britain and the United States in in 2011 and The Glass Wall, Lives On the Baltic Frontier in 2021.

Lord Egremont lives in West Sussex, Great Britain.