Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read

Piers Paul Read, FRSL (born 7 March 1941) is an award-winning English novelist, historian and biographer.

He was first noted for a book of reportage Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature-film and a documentary. This was followed by some well-acclaimed novels that criticised English middle-class ethics from the less-usual viewpoint of a right-wing practising Catholic, with sin and redemption as recurring themes.

Among his most popular works are The Professor's Daughter, A Married Man, and A Season in the West. Read is also a dramatist and TV scriptwriter.

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    Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.
    Piers Paul Read (b. 1941)