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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 o
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I was given this book for Christmas and picked it up to read a few chapters at 4pm that day, ten and a half hours, and most of a bottle of wine, later at am on Boxing Day I finished the last of the pages. I just kept thinking I&#;ll read another chapter and then by one o&#;clock in the morning it was a case of, well I may as well finish it then. Yes I knew a lot of the story already but Rob&#;s writing draws you in, he is surprisingly good with a turn of phrase although I suppose he was taught by a master. Rob Wilkins, for those who don&#;t know, was Terry&#;s PA and later business manager from December until his death. He now runs Narrativia (a production company looking after Terry&#;s works) and Terry&#;s literary estate alongside Rhianna Pratchett, Terry&#;s daughter. It is this that gives him a unique oversight of Terry&#;s life and works.
Terry had started to compile notes for an autobiography before he died in but by then had only produced around 24, words
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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 bygd 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&#