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Anne Perry /
Blackheath, England, 1938 /

Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme) was born on 28th October 1938 in Blackheath, London (England), but spent much of her childhood and adolescence in New Zealand. Her schooling was interrupted on several occasions by their frequent moves and her successive illnesses which led her to passionate reading of authors such as Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie. Her father encouraged her to write for a living.

Prolific writer, she is a phenomenon among traditional European thriller writers, but as opposed to other best sellers in the genre she goes beyond an interesting succession of classic reasoning and investigations. Anne Perry looks in greater depth at social, ideological and political problems and the cultural atmosphere in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century, also giving her characters broad depth to be able to masterfully reveal the whole complexity of the Victorian world. She began her writing career at the end of the 1970s, reaping success with her first novel The Carter Street Hangman (1979), which was published ten years after it was written. The main character of this book is Thomas Pitt and his perspicacious wife Charlotte, and these characters, along with the series featuring inspector William Monk and his companion Hester, became internationally famous. Thanks to her careful recreation of the shades and ambiguities of Victorian society, loveable and well carved out characters and solid and intelligent plots, she has won fans among millions of readers the world over.

She is a highly knowledgeable and cultured woman.  She loves opera and has translated several Greek, Latin and Italian texts into English (including the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri).

Fiercely private, she lives in a house in Portmahomack, in the north of Scotland.

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