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University of Cambridge. Occupations. Novelist. historian. biographer. 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.
Figlio del poeta e critico letterario Herbert Read, si è laureato in storia all'Università di Cambridge. Nella sua cinquantennale carriera ha scritto numerosi romanzi (17), ma è principalmente noto per i suoi saggi nei quali ha ricostruito drammatici eventi contemporanei come il disastro di Černobyl' narrato in Catastrofe o il ...
Piers Paul Read is the author of works of fiction, reportage, history, biography and journalism. He is best known for Alive. The Story of the Andes Survivors published in 1974 but has won a number of literary awards for his novels. Recent work. Scarpia. Bloomsbury, 2015.
Website. http://www.pierspaulread.co.uk/. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs. edit data. British novelist and non-fiction writer. Educated at the Benedictines' Ampleforth College, and subsequently entered St John's College, University of Cambridge where he received his BA and MA (history).
Sir Herbert Read. Piers Paul Read was born on 7 March, 1941, in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, the third son of the poet and art critic, Sir Herbert Read, and Margaret Ludwig, a musician of German, Scottish, Irish and Italian extraction. At the age of eight, Read moved with his family to the village of Stonegrave in Ryedale, North Yorkshire ...
Piers Paul Read. Drama. Fiction. Libretto. Non-Fiction. Poetry. Born: Beaconsfield, England. Publishers: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Agents: Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd. Biography. Novelist and playwright Piers Paul Read was born in Beaconsfield on 7 March 1941.
Piers Paul Read has 59 books on Goodreads with 139104 ratings. Piers Paul Read’s most popular book is Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.
