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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

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In 1995, a fossil sea-turtle from the Eocene epoch of New Zealand was named Psephophorus terrypratchetti in his honour by the palaeontologist Richard Köhler. [81] Welcome to the world of Terry". The Scotsman online. 16 October 2003. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012 . Retrieved 17 December 2008. Smith, Kevin P. (20 September 2002). "Terry Pratchett". The Literary Encyclopedia . Retrieved 1 July 2009. He then called @rhipratchett for a chat over a cup of tea and we talked about the next novel. Specifically, which one should come next.

Pratchett collaborated with the folklorist Dr Jacqueline Simpson on The Folklore of Discworld (2008), a study of the relationship between many of the persons, places and events described in the Discworld books and their counterparts in myths, legends, fairy tales and folk customs on Earth.Smyth, Chris (31 December 2008). "Terry Pratchett 'flabbergasted' over knighthood". Times Online. London: Times Newspapers . Retrieved 19 February 2021. a b Wilkes, Neil (12 February 2009). " 'Minder' remake drops 600,000". Digital Spy. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012 . Retrieved 14 February 2009. Meditations on Middle-Earth, an anthology of essays on Middle Earth compiled by Karen Haber, contains Pratchett's essay "Cult Classic" (2002)

a b Saunders, Tristram Fane (29 September 2022). "Terry Pratchett by Rob Wilkins review: the gloriously mundane magic of Discworld". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 11 October 2022. Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. The Library Foundation is a non-profit organization that raises funds for Library enhancement programs such as adult and early literacy, children and teen reading clubs, technology, and cultural programs. Foundation members receive a variety of benefits with their membership. For more information, see http://www.lfla.org.

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The joy of this biography . . . is that it spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did. The Telegraph

Tributes to Sir Terry Pratchett". Terry Pratchett Books. 31 March 2015. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015 . Retrieved 23 April 2015. White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld". William T. Abbott. May 2002 . Retrieved 7 June 2007.At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own. Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Published by Harper) - Nominated for Best Novel in 2008". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association . Retrieved 6 April 2023.

Wilkins has many advantages over most biographers, having not only known his subject well, but taken down notes while he was alive for his projected memoir. The result, at times, is like a ventriloquist act, with Pratchett's voice and personality emerging loud and clear. The Herald Perpetual Sir Terry Pratchett Scholarship announced for UniSA". University of South Australia . Retrieved 18 May 2016. The Los Angeles Public Library serves the largest most diverse population of any library in the United States. But Sir Terry unashamedly enjoyed his commercial success. He would answer thanks from fans with, “Thank you for the money,” and when asked by a friend what he would do with the vast tract of land he had just bought, replied: “Walk on each bit of it and say, ‘I own you, I own you, I own you…’” Staff (30 November 2016). "IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118". IUPAC . Retrieved 1 December 2016.Terry often talked about “doing” his autobiography. In the years before he was ill, he talked about it almost exclusively to dismiss the idea. He didn’t seem persuaded that there was anything in the story of the journey that took a kid from a council house in Beaconsfield to a knighthood and a mansion near Salisbury by the sheer power of his imagination alone; or in the tale of how a boy with, as Terry put it, “a mouthful of speech impediments” became one of his generation’s most popular communicators; or how someone who left school with five O-levels could also go on to have an honorary professorship at Trinity College Dublin. And besides, there were always other things waiting to be written – bigger stories in which far more outlandish and arresting things were free to happen.

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