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Piers Paul Read

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March 07, 1941 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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British novelist and non-fiction writer. Received a BA and an MA (history) from Ampleforth College and St John's College, Cambridge. Artist-in-Residence at the Ford Foundation in Berlin (1963-4), Harkness Fellow, Commonwealth Fund, New York (1967-8), member of the Council of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (1971-5), member of the Literature Panel at the Arts Council, (1975-7), and Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University, New York (1980). From 1992-7 he was Chairman of the Catholic Writers' Guild.

His most well-known work is the non-fiction Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (1974), an account of the aftermath of a plane crash in the Andes, later adapted as a film.

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Books by Piers Paul Read

Average rating: 3.94 · 10,365 ratings · 582 reviews · 34 distinct works

	Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors 3.98 avg rating — 9,417 ratings — published 1974 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Templars: The Dramatic History of the Knights Templar, the Most Powerful Military Order of the Crusades 3.33 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Death of a Pope 3.44 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Alice in Exile: A Novel 3.54 avg rating — 63 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Misogynist 3.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Married Man 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Free Frenchman by Piers Paul Read, Paul Piers Read 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hell and Other Destinations: A Novelist's Reflections on This World and the Next 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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“Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.”
― Piers Paul Read

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