Piers Paul Read
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''. Provided by Wikipedia
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Death of a Pope / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The professor's daughter : a novel. by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The Junkers. by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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Ablaze : the story of the heroes and victims of Chernobyl / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The Templars / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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Monk Dawson. by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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Polonaise : a novel / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The train robbers / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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Alec Guinness : the authorized biography / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The free Frenchman / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The Dreyfus affair : the scandal that tore France in two / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The upstart : a novel. by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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Alive : the story of the Andes survivors / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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The templarios / by Read, Piers Paul, 1941-
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