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 the Enid McLeod Award for The Free Frenchman. Read has worked and lived in both the United Kingdom and the United States, where he published many of his recent works. In recent years, he has produced a number of authorized biographies and popular history books which are intended for a general audience. In addition to his written works, Read is also a dramatist and television scriptwriter. Piers Paul Read is the author of works of fiction, reportage, history, biography and journalism.

Print Word PDF This section contains 636 words (approx. John's College, Cambridge where he studied history.Īmong his most popular works are The Professor's Daughter, A Married Man, and A Season in the West. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors Summary & Study Guide Piers Paul Read This Study Guide consists of approximately 37 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Alive. 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. Piers Paul Read FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is an award-winning British novelist, historian and biographer.

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