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 Terry Pratchett was born in Buckinghamshire in 1948. He's managed to avoid all the really interesting jobs authors take in order to look good in this sort of biography. In his search for a quiet life he got a job as a Press officer with the Central Electricity Generating Board just after Three Mile Island, which shows his unerring sense of timing. He now writes full time.
Terry is best known for his hugely popular Discworld series of comic fantasy novels, and has sold more than 55 million books worldwide and has had his works translated into 33 languages. Educated at High Wycombe Technical High School, Beaconsfield, Terry sold his first story when he was 13 years old and used the money to buy a second-hand typewriter. A few years later, in 1971, his first book The Carpet People was published.
It detailed the first of Pratchett's alternative universes, but the most successful has been Discworld - with magical characters living on a flat world sitting on the backs of four elephants, who stand on the shell of a giant turtle.
The first Discworld novel was The Colour of Magic (1983), which Terry wrote in his spare time while working as a press officer. He turned to writing full time in 1987 after completing his fourth Discworld novel Mort.
On his official website, Sir Terry says of Discworld: "It started out as a parody of all the fantasy that was around in the big boom of the early '80s, then turned into a satire on just about everything, and even I don't know what it is now."
Terry has won numerous literary awards, and was made an OBE for services to literature in 1998. He has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warwick, Portsmouth, Bath and Bristol. Terry was knighted in 2009 and is now known as Sir Terry. Sir Terry has also collaborated with Neil Gaiman and Ian Stewart. [edit]
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