Sharpe's Triumph (44 page)
About the Author
Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944 -
a 'warbaby' - whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air
Force. He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar
People (and they were), but escaped to London University and, after a stint as a teacher, he
joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years. He began as a researcher on the
Nationwide programme and ended as Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern
Ireland. It was while working in Belfast that he met Judy, a visiting American, and fell in
love. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where
he was refused a Green Card. He decided to earn a living by writing, a job that did not need a
permit from the US government - and for some years he had been wanting to write the adventures
of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars - and so the Sharpe series was born. Bernard and
Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing
Sharpe.
a 'warbaby' - whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air
Force. He was adopted by a family in Essex who belonged to a religious sect called the Peculiar
People (and they were), but escaped to London University and, after a stint as a teacher, he
joined BBC Television where he worked for the next 10 years. He began as a researcher on the
Nationwide programme and ended as Head of Current Affairs Television for the BBC in Northern
Ireland. It was while working in Belfast that he met Judy, a visiting American, and fell in
love. Judy was unable to move to Britain for family reasons so Bernard went to the States where
he was refused a Green Card. He decided to earn a living by writing, a job that did not need a
permit from the US government - and for some years he had been wanting to write the adventures
of a British soldier in the Napoleonic wars - and so the Sharpe series was born. Bernard and
Judy married in 1980, are still married, still live in the States and he is still writing
Sharpe.
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