Randal Hume Keynes OBE is a British author and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the well known author of the intimate exploration of his famous ancestry, Annie's Box, subtitled Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution a book about the relationship between Darwin and his daughter Annie whose early death deeply affected him and his views on religion. Keynes is the son of the physiologist Richard Keynes (who is the nephew of the economist John Maynard Keynes) and his wife Anne Adrian. His brothers are Simon Keynes and Roger Keynes. His maternal grandfather Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1932. He is married to Zelfa Cecil Hourani who is of Lebanese descent. She is the daughter of the writer Cecil Hourani, and niece of Albert Hourani. They have two children; Soumaya (who has appeared in various productions for Radio 4) and Skandar (who plays Edmund in the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe). They currently reside in London. He has also recently opened an exhibit on Darwin at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. Keynes was educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford. He is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association.
