Biography
Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. He was made famous by his book Touching the Void (winner of the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and subsequently made into a movie) in which he described a successful but disastrous and near-fatal attempt by himself and Simon Yates to climb Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. In 1997 he began another career as a motivational speaker, talking at corporate events throughout the world. He has also survived many other major accidents, notably breaking his other leg in the Himalaya while climbing with Mal Duff. His later non-fiction books describe other expeditions including an attempt on the North Face of the Eiger, and his changing feeling towards extreme mountaineering brought on by the many deaths that surround the pursuit. One of his books, "The Beckoning Silence" was made into a documentary that was released on Channel 4 in October 2007.
Bibliography
Touching the Void ISBN 0-09-945229-4
Dark Shadows Falling ISBN 0-09-975611-0
Storms of Silence ISBN 0-09-957811-5
This Game of Ghosts ISBN 0-09-938011-0
The Beckoning Silence ISBN 0-09-942243-3
The Water People (fiction) ISBN 0-349-10349-6
- Ann Radcliffe
Biography Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in Holborn. At the age of 22, she married journalist William Radcliffe, owner and editor of the English Chronicle, in Bath in 1788. The couple was childless and, to amuse herself, she began to write fiction, which...
- Beverley Nichols
John Beverley Nichols (born September 9, 1898 in Bower Ashton, Bristol, died September 15, 1983 in Kingston, London), was an English writer, playwright, actor, novelist and composer. He went to school at Marlborough College, and went to Balliol College,...
- Andy Mcnab
Andy McNab DCM MM (born December 28, 1959) is a British former soldier turned novelist. McNab came to public prominence in 1993 when he wrote an account about the failed SAS mission Bravo Two Zero during the Gulf War. He has subsequently authored an autobiography...
- Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and the football memoir Fever Pitch. In his work he frequently touches upon sports, music, and...
- Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is a British writer of humorous poetry. Pam Ayres was born at Stanford in the Vale in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). After leaving Farringdon Secondary School at the age of 15, she joined the Civil...
Biography
Joe Simpson (mountaineer)
Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. He was made famous by his book Touching the Void (winner of the 1988 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and subsequently made into a movie) in which he described a successful but disastrous and near-fatal attempt by himself and Simon Yates to climb Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. In 1997 he began another career as a motivational speaker, talking at corporate events throughout the world. He has also survived many other major accidents, notably breaking his other leg in the Himalaya while climbing with Mal Duff. His later non-fiction books describe other expeditions including an attempt on the North Face of the Eiger, and his changing feeling towards extreme mountaineering brought on by the many deaths that surround the pursuit. One of his books, "The Beckoning Silence" was made into a documentary that was released on Channel 4 in October 2007.
Bibliography
Touching the Void ISBN 0-09-945229-4
Dark Shadows Falling ISBN 0-09-975611-0
Storms of Silence ISBN 0-09-957811-5
This Game of Ghosts ISBN 0-09-938011-0
The Beckoning Silence ISBN 0-09-942243-3
The Water People (fiction) ISBN 0-349-10349-6
- Ann Radcliffe
Biography Radcliffe was born Ann Ward in Holborn. At the age of 22, she married journalist William Radcliffe, owner and editor of the English Chronicle, in Bath in 1788. The couple was childless and, to amuse herself, she began to write fiction, which...
- Beverley Nichols
John Beverley Nichols (born September 9, 1898 in Bower Ashton, Bristol, died September 15, 1983 in Kingston, London), was an English writer, playwright, actor, novelist and composer. He went to school at Marlborough College, and went to Balliol College,...
- Andy Mcnab
Andy McNab DCM MM (born December 28, 1959) is a British former soldier turned novelist. McNab came to public prominence in 1993 when he wrote an account about the failed SAS mission Bravo Two Zero during the Gulf War. He has subsequently authored an autobiography...
- Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and the football memoir Fever Pitch. In his work he frequently touches upon sports, music, and...
- Pam Ayres
Pam Ayres MBE (born 14 March 1947) is a British writer of humorous poetry. Pam Ayres was born at Stanford in the Vale in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). After leaving Farringdon Secondary School at the age of 15, she joined the Civil...