Peter Currell Brown
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Peter Currell Brown is the author of the cult classic 1965 surrealist novel, Smallcreep's Day.
He was born in Colchester, Essex, and went to Colchester Royal Grammar School, which he left at fifteen. His first job working in a factory was the stimulus for Smallcreep's Day. He married in 1962, and his first child was born later that year. The following year he moved to a small cottage in rural Gloucestershire, where he raised his 4 children. He worked at various jobs locally, including Dursley's main factory, Lister's and Peter Scott’s Wildfowl Trust in Slimbridge. In 1966 he set up a craft pottery he called The Snake Pottery. He later gave up employed work to concentrate on the pottery. In 1987 he separated from his wife and moved out of the cottage. Since then he has constantly moved from one expertise to another, reinventing himself and moving on when there is no more to learn. He has always lived a green lifestyle, long before it became fashionable, and must have one of the lightest carbon footprints of all.{fact}
In 1980 Mike Rutherford released an album named after and inspired by Smallcreep's Day.
Today he is a master craftsman living in a cottage on the edge of woodland. He has never retired and is frequently sought after for his knowledge and expertise and advises on, and occasionally appears in, films and television. Last published in 1975, Smallcreep's Day is due to be republished in September 2008 by Pinter & Martin.
