-HIS BIO- Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944 Ron Santo Authentic Jersey , an illegitimate ?war baby? whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted as an infant and raised in Essex by a family belonging to a religious sect (now extinct) called The Peculiar People. They forbade alcohol, cigarettes, dancing, television and conventional medicine. After an unhappy childhood, he escaped to London University, worked briefly as a teacher after graduation, and then joined BBC television. He started as a researcher in the Nationwide programme and eventually worked his way up to Head of Current Affairs for BBC in Northern Ireland, and became editor of Thames TV's News division. It was while working in Belfast that he met his wife Andre Dawson Authentic Jersey , Judy, a visiting American, for whom he moved to the United States.
As a teenager, Bernard loved the Hornblower novels by C. S. Forester and had always dreamed of writing. When he and Judy first met in 1980, Judy was unable to live in England for family reasons so Bernard moved to America where he was refused a Green Card. It was then he decided to act upon his dream and do something which did not need the government's permission - to write a novel. He and Judy are still married and Bernard is now an American citizen.
Bernard Cornwell has since published over 40 books, most of them translated into more than a dozen languages. The Sharpe series, of which there are now twenty, was made into a TV series by Carlton Television David Ross Authentic Jersey , and shown in the US on Masterpiece Theatre. The latest, Sharpe's Escape, is set at the beginning of the Peninsular War and, like the rest, is firmly grounded in real history. He is also the author of the acclaimed Arthur books, The Warlord Chronicles; of the Starbuck Chronicles, set during the American Civil War, and of the Grail Quest Series Joe Maddon Nike Jersey , tales of the 14th Century. He has also written Stonehenge, 2000 BC; Gallows Thief, Redcoat, which is about the American Revolution; and five contemporary sailing thrillers. He lives and writes from his home in Chatham, Cape Cod.
-Christopher Seufert Interviews Bernard Cornwell- Christopher Seufert: I was astounded to find that you've sold over 12,000,000 copies world-wide of the Sharpe Series, which is just a fraction of your catalog. Furthermore Anthony Rizzo Nike Jersey , the Boston Globe recently stated that you were perhaps 'the greatest writer of historical novels today." Are you a success by your own standard?
Bernard Cornwell: I'm a success inasmuch that I enjoy my life, which is an enormous blessing and that doesn't depend on commercial success (though I wouldn't be such a fool as to deny that it helps). What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. It just so happens that I write books, and I'm amazingly lucky that the books sell well all across the world, but even the biggest financial success will not compensate for an ill-lived life. I'm fortunate that the books sell Cole Hamels Nike Jersey , but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience. Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
CS: The Boston Globe also pointed to the irony that "There are places where Bernard Cornwell is a household name. His adopted home here on Cape Cod isn't one of them." I get the sense that they're correct, that you do in fact walk the streets of Chatham in general anonymity, as opposed to similarly successful Chatham residents. Would you say this is true?
BC: Absolutely true, and I wouldn't change it for the world. Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known Addison Russell Nike Jersey , I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces. I did a TV series for the British History Channel a few years ago and for a few weeks afterwards I was accosted by folk in Britain wanting to talk, which was flattering, but the memory faded and blessed anonymity returned.
CS: Sharpe's Havoc, published in 2003, was the first of your many novels to reach the New York Times Best Seller list here in the U.S. Meanwhile in Britain, you've already had many best sellers Jason Heyward Nike Jersey , including the Sharpe series going to television. To what do you attribute this discrepancy? Do you see your popularity in the United States increasing with your increasing publication of stories based on American history?
BC: The discrepancy is entirely based, I think, on the fact that I write best when I'm writing about what I know, and that is British history. And though I've lived in the States for over 25 years and am now an American citizen, I still hear British voices in my head. Writing British dialogue is easy, writing American is harder, and I feel much more confident writing about Brits. So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil Ben Zobrist Nike Jersey , Japan and at least a dozen other countries. In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a good story transcends national boundaries. I still have to crack the French market, though that isn't entirely surprising considering that the Sharpe novels are endless tales of French defeat.
CS: You've been a resident of Chatham for some years now. When you moved here, as the story goes, you didn't have a work permit and so, began writing for a living. Were you surprised that it worked out as that practical a solution? I'd imagine many who came to that solution would end up back in England in 6 months.
BC: I was astonished! Actually I moved to New Jersey in 1980 and didn't discover Chatham until 1990, by which time the books were selling Kris Bryant Nike Jersey , but it was still a daft decision, based solely on love. Judy couldn't move
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