Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1941-03-07 (83 years old)

Biography

Piers Paul Read FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. Read was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied history.

Among his most popular works are The Professor's Daughter, A Married Man, and A Season in the West. In addition to his written works, Read is also a dramatist and television scriptwriter. In recent years, he has produced a number of authorized biographies and popular history books which are intended for a general audience. Read has worked and lived in both the United Kingdom and the United States, where he published many of his recent works. Read was awarded the Sir Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Junkers, the Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award for Monk Dawson, the Thomas More Medal for Alive, and the Enid McLeod Award for The Free Frenchman. Author's website

Biography from the British Council

Piers Paul Read at IMDb

1999 interview with the Catholic magazine AD2000

Read's book, The Death of a Pope

Interview with Read on being a Catholic author and his new book.

Archival material at Leeds University Library

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Known For
Writing

Birthday
1941-03-07 (83 years old)

Religion
Catholic Church

Height

Spouse
Emily Albertine Boothby

Children
Beatrice Mary Read, Martha Mariana Read, William Edward Read, Albert Nathaniel Read

Father
Herbert Edward Read

Mother
Margaret Read

Siblings
Benedict Read

Citizenships
United Kingdom

Awards
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize

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