Martin Page (British author)

Martin Page ( June 1938 - March 2003) was a British writer and journalist. He was the son of a British industrialist, farmer and a journalist.

After Leighton Park school and Millfield he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge where he read anthropology. At the age of 24, despite falling eyesight he became Fleet Street's youngest correspondent, covering seven wars from Algeria to Vietnam.

He wrote his first book Unpersoned in Moscow where he was the correspondent for the Daily Express. His books were published in 14 languages, include the Company Savage, which became a bestseller in Japan and Germany, and two novels, The Pilate Plot and The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa. In 1988 he registered as legally blind.

He lived in Portugal from 1988 to 1987 where he wrote The First Global Village - How Portugal Changed The World (2002). It has sold over 20,000 copies in both Portuguese and English. From there he moved to Rome, and then came back to the UK

He died in 2003 of heart problems.