Andrew recently submitted his PhD thesis in post-1945 English Literature at the University of Oxford, where he is a Rhodes Scholar. He has written on literary and political topics. In 2015 he published Ruth, Roger and Me, a book that reflected on the effect of the 1980s and 1990s reforms on the lives and experiences of young New Zealanders
Andrew Dean considers his family's heritage as Jewish refugees, his formidable great-aunt Frances, and the important and often misused relationship between nostalgia and politics.