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Website. terrypratchettbooks .com. Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for his 41 comic fantasy novels set on the Discworld, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990) which he wrote with Neil Gaiman .
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Sir Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (28 April 1948) was a British fantasy, Science fiction, and children's author. He is known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first...
Sir Terry Pratchett OBE ( Terence David John Pratchett; 28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author. He was known for his fantasy works, including the famous Discworld series. His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. He was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s.
- Terry Pratchett sold his first short story when he was 14 years old. Pratchett wrote his first fantasy story, “Business Rivals,” as a school assignment when he was 13 years old.
- Pratchett dropped out of high school to work as a journalist. According to Marc Burrows’s 2020 biography The Magic of Terry Pratchett, Pratchett was about a year into his A-Levels—a two-year course of study that UK students begin at the age of 16—when he wrote to the editor of a local newspaper to ask if a job might be available when he graduated.
- Pratchett started writing his first novel, The Carpet People, when he was 17. Not long after joining the paper, Pratchett took over a small newspaper column in the Bucks Free Press called Children’s Circle, which serialized a bedtime story over the course of several issues.
- Pratchett predicted the rise of fake news and internet-based conspiracy theories in 1995. While researching The Magic of Terry Pratchett, Burrows uncovered an interview Pratchett had done with Microsoft founder Bill Gates for a 1995 issue of GQ’s British edition.
Oct 1, 2022 · Professor Sir Terry Pratchett OBE was the creator of the hugely successful Discworld series of novels, and became Britain’s best-selling author of adult fiction, writing over fifty wildly successful titles in his lifetime.
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