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Robert Nye

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January 01, 1939 in London, The United Kingdom

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Nye started writing stories for children to entertain his three young sons. Nye published his first adult novel, Doubtfire, in 1967.

Nye's next publication after Doubtfire was a return to children's literature, a freewheeling version of Beowulf which has remained in print in many editions since 1968. In 1970, he published another children's book, Wishing Gold, and received the James Kennaway Memorial Award for his collection of short stories, Tales I Told My Mother (1969).

During the early 1970s Nye wrote several plays for BBC radio including “A Bloody Stupit Hole” (1970), “Reynolds, Reynolds” (1971), and a version of Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist (1971). He was also commissioned by Covent Garden to write an unpublished libretto for Har...more

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Books by Robert Nye

Average rating: 3.49 · 764 ratings · 108 reviews · 42 distinct works

	Beowulf: A New Telling 3.31 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Late Mr. Shakespeare 3.56 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Falstaff 4.07 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1976 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Mrs. Shakespeare: The Complete Works 3.00 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1993 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Merlin 3.64 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Life And Death Of My Lord Gilles De Rais 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Faust: Being the Historia von D. Johann Fausten dem wietbeschreyten Zauberer & Schwartzkünstler or History of Dr John Faust the Notorious Magician 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Memoirs Of Lord Byron (Abacus Books) 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Voyage of the Destiny 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Classic Folk Tales From Around The World 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: