Peter Burnett (author)
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Peter Burnett is an author from Aberdeenshire in Scotland. His novels include The Machine Doctor (2001) and Odium (2004). He has also self published 12 pamphlets, beginning in 1998.
Burnett was born into a middle class family in Aberdeenshire in 1967, the eldest son of two teachers. He attended the University of Aberdeen, where he gained an Honors degree in History. He then trained in mime at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, in Paris, before being employed full time by Amnesty International. Later, while training as a financial planner Burnett wrote his first novel The Machine Doctor and in 2000 he returned to Glasgow University where he gained an honors degree (BD) in theology, winning the gold medal for Hebrew language.
