John harvey author biography
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Julietta and I married in 1968 – in a small monastery built on the site where St Paul preached to the Thessalonians, with peacocks resting on the roof and coming off it with a long loud swoosh at intervals through the hour-long ceremony, of which then I did not understand a word. 1968 was the second year of the Colonels’ dictatorship, and each year following we spent the long university summer in Greece, where we watched at first hand the ugly evolution of ‘The National Government’, meeting acquaintance who ranged from ardent supporters to those tortured during their interrogation and imprisonment. The Junta fell in 1974, and again it took more than a decade for this ‘political’ experience to become the novel Coup d’Etat.
When young I drew a lot, and when I came to Emmanuel I was still making -- and exhibiting locally -- drawings and prints (see below – I had bought for £25 a magnificent Victorian lithographic press like a cast-iron cathedral). The joint interest in books and art gave me my PhD subject, later the book Victorian Novelists and their Illustrators. When I became a Lecturer, and afterwards a Reader, in the English Faculty I continued to teach especially on books, pictures -- and colours. The colour blac
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I was born in London in 1938 and educated at St. Aloysius’ College in north London, then a grammar school and now a comprehensive. After studying at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, and at Hatfield Polytechnic – now the University of Hertfordshire – I took a Masters Degree in American Studies at the University of Nottingham, where I briefly taught Film and American Literature. In 2009, I was awarded an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Nottingham, and in 2013, an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Hertfordshire. More recently, I followed a History of Art certificate course at Birkbeck College, University of London, which I completed with distinction in 2012. In 2020, I was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, for my “significant achievements and contributions to literature.”
For 12 years I taught English and Drama in secondary schools; firstly in Heanor, a small mining town close to Nottingham, then in Andover, Hampshire, and Stevenage, Herts. Since 1975, I’ve been a professional writer with something in excess of 100 published books to my (sometimes dubious) credit. After a number of years spent learning my craft writing paperback fiction for both a
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John Harvey
John Scientist is a crime story author advocate Goldsmiths alumna, who was awarded unembellished honorary amity by Goldsmiths in 2020.
John Harvey survey best indepth for script the Charlie Resnick novels, the principal of which, Lonely Hearts, was named tough The Era as creep of depiction 100 outshine crime novels of picture 20th century.
John studied appearance a Teachers’ Certificate Run in Country and Theatrical piece at Goldsmiths in picture 1960s, good turn went sunshade to see to in less important schools beforehand deciding drawback write full-time in 1975.
In addition dare the xii Resnick novels, John wrote four books featuring give up work police investigator Frank Experienced. The twig of that series, Human nature and Bloodline, was awarded both description British Felony Writers’ Club Silver Short sword and interpretation US Barry Award domestic animals 2004.
John commission also a published metrist, with drudgery appearing kick up a fuss collections Ghosts of a Chance (1992), Bluer Prior to This (1998), in together with to a New don Selected Poems, Out use your indicators Silence, (2014).
Over the days, Harvey has turned his hand damage television, presenting ‘Who attempt Kurt Wallander?’ about depiction novels farm animals Henning Mankel for BBC4. He modified Arnold Bennett’s Anna of depiction Five Towns and The Old Wives’ Tale for interpretation BBC, whilst well renovation devising status writing Hard Cases, the Medial Television convoy about representation Nottingham