Piers Paul Read

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Piers Paul Read (March 7, 1941 - ) is a novelist and non-fiction British writer and author.

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[edit] Background

Read was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK. He is the son of the poet, Herbert Read. He received his B.A. in 1961 and M.A. in 1962 from Cambridge University. He also spent time in Germany on a Ford Foundation Fellowship.

Read is a practicing Catholic and Vice-President of the Catholic Writers' Guild of England and Wales.

[edit] Alive

Read is best known for his work, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes mountains. The book was adapted into the 1993 film, Alive: The Miracle of the Andes.

[edit] Other work

Read is the author of 13 novels and two works of non-fiction, including the best-seller He won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1970 for his book Monk Dawson.

In 1978 he wrote the book "The Train Robbers" about the Great Train Robbery (1963) in England in 1963. [[1]]

In 1988 he was awarded a James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his book, A Season in the West. In 2003 his authorized biography of the actor, Alec Guinness, was published.

[edit] References

  • "Read, Piers Paul." Contemporary Authors. New Revision Series, Vol. 38, pp.353-355.

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