"Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 and is still not dead. He started work as a journalist in 1965 and saw his first corpse 3 hours later, work experience meaning something in those days. After doing just about every job it's possible to do in provincial journalism, except of course covering Saturday afternoon football he joined the Central Electricity Generating board and became press officer for 4 nucleur power stations. He'd write a book about his experiences if he thought anyone would believe it.
All this came to an end in 1987 when it became obvious that the Discworld sereis was much more enjoyable than real work. Since than the books have reached double figures and have a regular place in the bestseller lists. He also writes books for younger readers. Occasionally he gets accused of literature.
Terry Pratchett lives in Wiltshire with his wife Lyn and daughter Rhianna. He says writing is the most fun anyone can have by themselves."
Well, that's the official word written in each of the books, anyway. I really can't think of much else to say about him. He usually keeps up to date with discworld happenings on the internet and he's generally a nice person, I think.
He may or may not have a pet hedgehog. Most likely not.
