Sharpe's Triumph (44 page)
About the Author
Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944 -
a 'warbaby' - whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air
Force. He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar
People (and they were), but escaped to London University and, after a stint as a teacher, he
joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years. He began as a researcher on the
Nationwide programme and ended as Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern
Ireland. It was while working in Belfast that he met Judy, a visiting American, and fell in
love. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where
he was refused a Green Card. He decided to earn a living by writing, a job that did not need a
permit from the US government - and for some years he had been wanting to write the adventures
of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars - and so the Sharpe series was born. Bernard and
Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing
Sharpe.
a 'warbaby' - whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air
Force. He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar
People (and they were), but escaped to London University and, after a stint as a teacher, he
joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years. He began as a researcher on the
Nationwide programme and ended as Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern
Ireland. It was while working in Belfast that he met Judy, a visiting American, and fell in
love. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where
he was refused a Green Card. He decided to earn a living by writing, a job that did not need a
permit from the US government - and for some years he had been wanting to write the adventures
of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars - and so the Sharpe series was born. Bernard and
Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing
Sharpe.
Other books
All Your Loving (Bachelors & Bridesmaids) by Freethy, Barbara
The Ninth Talisman by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House by Geronimo Stilton
Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Irenicon by Aidan Harte
Arcadia (Book 1): Damn The Dead by Tomasso, Phillip
Motherhood Comes Naturally (and Other Vicious Lies) by Jill Smokler
Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica
There's an Egg in My Soup by Tom Galvin
The Hop by Sharelle Byars Moranville