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
Filmography
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TV Shows 1
Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
Monk Dawson (1998)
Alive (1993)
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Known ForWriting
Birthday1941-03-07 (83 years old)
ReligionCatholic Church
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SpouseEmily Albertine Boothby
ChildrenBeatrice Mary Read, Martha Mariana Read, William Edward Read, Albert Nathaniel Read
FatherHerbert Edward Read
MotherMargaret Read
SiblingsBenedict Read
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsGeoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize
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