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Active 1964–present · Awards: James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Somerset Maugham Award, Hawthornden Prize
Piers Paul Read FRSL is a British novelist, historian and biographer. He was first noted in 1974 for a book of reportage, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, later adapted as a feature film and a documentary. Read was educated at St.