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Bjørn reviews Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins.
| Series: | standalone |
| Genre: | Biography, Memoir |
| Publisher: | Doubleday |
| Date of Publishing: | September 29, |
| Trigger Warnings: | H*rry P*tt*r (not my choice of spelling!), Alzheimer’s disease, assisted death, Rob Wilkins |
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&#;People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.&#;
At the time of his death in , award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet &#; his own.
At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything.
He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At sixty-six, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK&#;s bestselling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature.
Following his untimely death from Alzheimer&#;s disease, the mantle of completing Terry&#;s memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author&#;s literary estate.
Drawing on his own extensive memories, along with those of Terry&#;s family, friends, fans and colleagues, Rob recounts Terry&#;s extraordina
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Book review: “Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes &#; The Official Biography” by Rob Wilkins
Chicago doesn’t play much of a role in Rob Wilkins’s biography of his boss, Terry Pratchett, the British mega-selling author of the fantasy-science fiction Discworld series whose life was cut short at the age of 66 by early onset Alzheimer’s. But the city’s cameo appearances come at several key moments.
In the fall of , an event in Chicago — well, actually, suburban Chicago, at the Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville — was the final stop of Pratchett’s final American book tour when he was promoting his standalone novel Dodger while facing the progressive loss of his physical and mental functions.
And, as Wilkins recounts in Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, itwas in Chicago eleven years earlier, while having breakfast at the InterContinental Hotel on Michigan Avenue, that he and Pratchett learned of the death of Douglas Adams. A Pratchett friend and the author of the cult favorite The Hitchhiker&#;s Guide to the Galaxy, Adams died of a heart attack at the age of
And thirteen months before that is when the Chicago Tribune published a story with the headline: “DISCWORLD ENCHANTS THE GLOBE, BUT NOT THE US.”
Pratchett was not pleased. The thing is
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