Kenneth Martin Follett, (born 5 June 1949) is a British author of
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s and historical novels who has sold more than 160 million copies of his works.
Many of his books have achieved high ranking on best seller lists. For example, in the US, many reached the number-one position on the
''New York Times'' Best Seller list, including ''
Triple
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* A basketball three-point field goal
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* In ...
'' (1979), ''
The Key to Rebecca'' (1980), ''
Lie Down with Lions
''Lie Down with Lions'' is a 1985 spy novel by Ken Follett. The book was published by Signet in paperback. Today it is available in print, CD and audiobook formats.
In 1994 it was made into a TV miniseries directed by Jim Goddard and starring ...
'' (1985), ''
A Dangerous Fortune'' (1993), ''
World Without End'' (2007), ''
Fall of Giants'' (2010), ''
Winter of the World'' (2012), and ''
Edge of Eternity'' (2014).
[New York Times List of Number One Best Sellers]
Early life and education
Follett was born on 5 June 1949 in
Cardiff
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, Wales. He was the first child of Martin Follett, a tax inspector, and Lavinia (Veenie) Follett, who went on to have two more children, Hannah and James.
Barred from watching films and television by his
Plymouth Brethren
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parents, he developed an early interest in reading but remained an indifferent student until he entered his teens.
His family moved to London when he was ten years old, and he began applying himself to his studies at
Harrow Weald
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Grammar School and
Poole
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Technical College.
He won admission in 1967 to
University College London
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, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
, where he studied philosophy and became involved in centre-left politics. He married Mary, in 1968, and their son Emanuele was born in the same year. After graduation in the autumn of 1970, Follett took a three-month post-graduate course in journalism and went to work as a trainee reporter in Cardiff on the ''
South Wales Echo
The ''South Wales Echo'' is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Cardiff, Wales and distributed throughout the surrounding area. It has a circulation of 7,573.
Background
The newspaper was founded in 1884 and was based in Thomson House, Ca ...
''. In 1973 a daughter, Marie-Claire, was born.
Career
After three years in Cardiff, he returned to London as a general-assignment reporter for the ''
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''. Finding the work unchallenging, he eventually left journalism for publishing and became, by the late 1970s, deputy managing director of the small London publisher Everest Books.
He began writing fiction during evenings and weekends as a hobby. Later, he said, he began writing books when he needed extra money to fix his car, and the publishers' advance a fellow journalist had been paid for a thriller was the sum required for the repairs.
Further successes
Success came gradually at first, but the 1978 publication of ''
Eye of the Needle'', which became an international bestseller and sold over 10 million copies, made him both wealthy and internationally famous.
Each of Follett's subsequent novels has become a best-seller, ranking high on the
''New York Times'' Best Seller list; a number have been adapted for the screen. As of January 2018, he had published 44 books. The first five best sellers were spy thrillers: ''Eye of the Needle'' (1978), ''
Triple
Triple is used in several contexts to mean "threefold" or a "treble":
Sports
* Triple (baseball), a three-base hit
* A basketball three-point field goal
* A figure skating jump with three rotations
* In bowling terms, three strikes in a row
* In ...
'' (1979), ''
The Key to Rebecca ''(1980), ''
The Man from St. Petersburg'' (1982) and ''
Lie Down with Lions
''Lie Down with Lions'' is a 1985 spy novel by Ken Follett. The book was published by Signet in paperback. Today it is available in print, CD and audiobook formats.
In 1994 it was made into a TV miniseries directed by Jim Goddard and starring ...
'' (1986). ''
On Wings of Eagles
''On Wings of Eagles'' is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells a story based on the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by ...
'' (1983) was the true story of how two of
Ross Perot
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's employees were rescued from Iran during the revolution of 1979.
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The next three novels, ''
Night Over Water'' (1991), ''
A Dangerous Fortune'' (1993) and ''
A Place Called Freedom'' (1995) were more historical than thriller, but he returned to the thriller genre with ''
The Third Twin'' (1996) which in the ''
Publishing Trends'' annual survey of international fiction best-sellers for 1997 was ranked no. 2 worldwide, after
John Grisham
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's ''
The Partner''. His next work, ''
The Hammer of Eden
''The Hammer of Eden'' is a work by Ken Follett published in 1998.
Plot
It is about a group of people living together in a commune cut off from the rest of the world. When their commune is threatened by a plan to build a dam, they turn desper ...
'' (1998), was another contemporary suspense story followed by a
Cold War thriller, ''
Code to Zero
''Code to Zero'' is a novel by the British author Ken Follett, published by Pan Macmillan. The story follows Luke, an amnesic who spends the duration of the book learning of his life, and slowly uncovering secrets of a conspiracy to hold America ...
'' (2000).
Follett returned to the
Second World War
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era with his next two novels, ''
Jackdaws
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'' (2001), a thriller about a group of women parachuted into France to destroy a vital telephone exchange – which won the
Corine Literature Prize for 2003 – and ''
Hornet Flight'' (2002), about a daring young
Danish couple who escape to Britain from occupied Denmark in a rebuilt
Hornet Moth biplane with vital information about German radar. ''
Whiteout'' (2004) is a contemporary thriller about the theft of a deadly virus from a research lab.
Kingsbridge series
Follett surprised his readers with his first non-spy thriller, ''
The Pillars of the Earth'' (1989), a novel about building a
cathedral
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in a small English village during
the Anarchy
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in the 12th century. The novel was highly successful, received positive reviews and was on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list for eighteen weeks. It topped best-seller lists in Canada, Britain and Italy, and was on the German best-seller list for six years. It has sold 26 million copies so far. On 16 August 2017, it was
published as a computer game adaptation by German developer and publisher
Daedalic Entertainment.
Its much-later sequel, ''
World Without End'' (2007), returns to Kingsbridge 157 years later, and features the descendants of the characters in ''Pillars''. It focuses on the destinies of a handful of people as their lives are devastated by the
Black Death, the plague that swept Europe from the middle of the 14th century.
The next novel in the series, ''
A Column of Fire'',
was published in September 2017.
Beginning in 1558, the story follows the romance between Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald over half a century. It commences at a time when Europe turns against
Elizabethan England
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, and the queen finds herself beset by plots to dethrone her.
A fourth novel, ''
The Evening and the Morning'' (2020), is a prequel to ''The Pillars of the Earth''. Set in the decade around 1000 AD – in the so-called
Dark Ages – the story "concerns the gradual creation of the town of Kingsbridge and of the many people – priests, nobles, peasants, the enslaved – who played significant roles".
As such, the book provides "a solid underpinning to the later installments of the Kingsbridge series".
The series has been described as being "as comprehensive an account of the building of a civilization – with its laws, structures, customs and beliefs – as you are likely to encounter anywhere in popular fiction".
Century trilogy
Follett's novels, ''
Fall of Giants'', ''
Winter of the World'' and ''
Edge of Eternity'', make up the Century Trilogy. ''Fall of Giants'' (2010) followed the fates of five interrelated families – American, German, Russian, English and Welsh – as they moved through the world-shaking dramas of the
First World War
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, the
Russian Revolution
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and the struggle for women's
suffrage. ''Fall of Giants'', published simultaneously in 14 countries, was internationally popular and topped several best-seller lists.
''Winter of the World'' (2012) picks up where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of
Nazi Germany
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, through the
Spanish Civil War
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and the great dramas of World War II, to the explosions of the American and Soviet atom bombs and the beginning of the long Cold War.
The final novel in the 'Century' trilogy, ''Edge of Eternity'', which follows those families through the events of the second half of the 20th century, was published on 16 September 2014. Like the previous two books, it chronicles the lives of five families through the Cold War and civil-rights movements.
A major element of the first two volumes, ''Fall of Giants'' and ''Winter of the World'', is the increasing political assertiveness of the British working class and the rise of the
British Labour Party
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– exemplified by the Williams Family, Welsh coal miners, of which several viewpoint characters end up as Members of the British Parliament and one of becomes a cabinet minister in
Clement Attlee
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's post-WWII Labour government. However, the theme of British politics is nearly absent from the third part ''Edge of Eternity'', which concentrates on the Cold War on the one hand and the US Civil Rights Movement on the other; for example, though the novel continues until 1989, it makes no reference at all to the rise of
Margaret Thatcher
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in 1979.
Adaptations
Follett has had a number of novels made into films and television mini series: ''Eye of the Needle'' was made into an
acclaimed film, starring Donald Sutherland, and six novels have been made into television mini-series: ''The Key to Rebecca'', ''Lie Down with Lions'', ''
On Wings of Eagles
''On Wings of Eagles'' is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells a story based on the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by ...
'' (1986), ''The Third Twin'' – the rights for which were sold to CBS for $US1,400,000, a record price at the time – and ''
The Pillars of the Earth'' (2010) and ''
World Without End'' (2012).
A video game adaptation titled ''
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth'', developed and published by German studio Daedalic Entertainment, was released in three parts from 2017 to 2018.
Follett had cameo roles as the valet in ''The Third Twin'' and later as a merchant in ''The Pillars of the Earth''. In 2016, ''A Dangerous Fortune'' was also adapted.
Public life
Follett is a member of various organisations that promote literacy and writing, and is actively involved in various organisations in his home town of
Stevenage
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.
* Chair of the National Year of Reading 1998–99, a British government initiative to raise literacy levels.
* Fellow of University College, London (1994)
* Fellow of
Yr Academi Gymreig
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– the Welsh Academy (2011)
* Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
* President,
Dyslexia Action
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*Dyslexia Action Training
*Dyslexia Guild
*Dyslexia Action Shop
Dyslexia Training offers onl ...
(1998–2009)
* Patron, Schools Radio (2007–)
* Chair of the Advisory Committee, Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) UK (2003–)
* Board Member, National Academy of Writing (2003–)
* Trustee,
National Literacy Trust (1996–)
He is active in numerous Stevenage charities and was a governor of Roebuck Primary School for ten years, serving as the Chair of Governors for four of those years.
On 15 September 2010, Follett, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in ''
The Guardian
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'' stating their opposition to
Pope Benedict XVI
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's state visit to the UK.
He has also donated £25,000 to the
Yvette Cooper
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campaign in the
2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election
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, as well as another £25,000 from his wife
Barbara Follett
Follett's archival papers are housed at the
Saginaw Valley State University
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in Michigan, United States. They include outlines, first drafts, notes and correspondence, original manuscripts, and copies of early books now out of print.
Awards
* 2018 – Made a
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
(CBE) in the
2018 Birthday Honours
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for services to literature.
* 2013 – Made a Grand Master at the
Edgar Awards
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in New York.
* 2012 – ''Winter of the World'' won the ''Qué Leer'' Prize for Best Translated Book of that year in Spain.
* 2010 – ''Fall of Giants'' won the ''Libri'' Golden Book Award for Best Fiction Title in Hungary that year.
* 2010 – Made a Grand Master at ''Thrillerfest'' V in New York.
* 2008 – Won the ''Olaguibel Prize'' for contributing to the promotion and awareness of architecture.
* 2008 – Made an Honorary Doctor of Literature by the
University of Exeter
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, ...
.
* 2007 – Made an Honorary Doctor of Literature by the
University of Glamorgan
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.
* 2007 – Made an Honorary Doctor of Literature by Saginaw Valley State University.
* 2003 – ''Jackdaws'' won the ''Corine Literature Prize'' in Bavaria.
* 1999 – ''Hammer of Eden'' won the
Premio Bancarella literary prize in Italy.
* 1979 – ''Eye of the Needle'' won the
Edgar Best Novel Award from the
Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.
The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday.
It presents the Edgar Award, ...
.
Personal life
Follett became involved, during the late 1970s, in the activities of Britain's
Labour Party. In the course of his political activities, he met
Barbara Broer, a Labour Party official, who became his second wife in 1984. She was elected as a Member of
Parliament
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in 1997, representing Stevenage. She was re-elected in both 2001 and 2005, but did not stand in the 2010 general election.
Follett himself remains a prominent Labour supporter and fundraiser as well as a prominent
Blairite
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.
He is an amateur musician playing bass guitar for Damn Right I Got the Blues, and appears occasionally with the folk group Clog Iron playing a bass
balalaika
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.
Follett now lives in
Hertfordshire, England.
Bibliography
Apples Carstairs series (as Simon Myles)
* ''The Big Needle'' (1974) (a.k.a. ''The Big Apple'' – U.S.)
* ''The Big Black'' (1974)
* ''The Big Hit'' (1975)
Piers Roper series
* ''The Shakeout'' (1975)
* ''The Bear Raid'' (1976)
Kingsbridge series
* ''
The Evening and the Morning'' (2020)
* ''
The Pillars of the Earth'' (1989)
*
''World Without End'' (2007)
* ''
A Column of Fire'' (2017)
The Century Trilogy
*
''Fall of Giants'' (2010)
* ''
Winter of the World'' (2012)
*
''Edge of Eternity'' (2014)
Standalone novels
* ''Amok: King of Legend'' (1976) (as Bernard L. Ross)
* ''The Modigliani Scandal'' (1976) (as Zachary Stone)
* ''The Mystery Hideout'' (1976) (as Martin Martinsen) (a.k.a. ''The Secret of Kellerman's Studio'')
* ''The Power Twins'' (1976) (as Martin Martinsen)
* ''Paper Money'' (1977) (as Zachary Stone)
* ''
Capricorn One
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'' (1978) (as Bernard L. Ross) (based on screenplay by
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer known for directing ''Capricorn One'' (which he also wrote), the 1981 science fiction-thriller '' Outland'', the 1984 science fiction film '' 2010: Th ...
)
* ''
Eye of the Needle'' (1978) (a.k.a. ''Storm Island'') (
Edgar Award, 1979, Best Novel)
*
''Triple'' (1979)
* ''
The Key to Rebecca'' (1980)
* ''
The Man from St. Petersburg'' (1982)
* ''
Lie Down with Lions
''Lie Down with Lions'' is a 1985 spy novel by Ken Follett. The book was published by Signet in paperback. Today it is available in print, CD and audiobook formats.
In 1994 it was made into a TV miniseries directed by Jim Goddard and starring ...
'' (1985)
* ''
Night Over Water'' (1991)
* ''
A Dangerous Fortune'' (1993)
* ''
A Place Called Freedom'' (1995)
* ''
The Third Twin'' (1996)
* ''
The Hammer of Eden
''The Hammer of Eden'' is a work by Ken Follett published in 1998.
Plot
It is about a group of people living together in a commune cut off from the rest of the world. When their commune is threatened by a plan to build a dam, they turn desper ...
'' (1998)
* ''
Code to Zero
''Code to Zero'' is a novel by the British author Ken Follett, published by Pan Macmillan. The story follows Luke, an amnesic who spends the duration of the book learning of his life, and slowly uncovering secrets of a conspiracy to hold America ...
'' (2000)
* ''
Jackdaws
Jackdaws are two species of bird in the genus ''Coloeus'' closely related to, but generally smaller than, the crows and ravens ('' Corvus''). ''Coloeus'' is sometimes treated as a subgenus of '' Corvus'', including by the IUCN.Madge & Burn (1994 ...
'' (2001)
* ''
Hornet Flight'' (2002)
*
''Whiteout'' (2004)
* ''Never'' (2021)
Non-fiction
*
''The Heist of the Century'' (1978) (with René Louis Maurice, others) (a.k.a. ''The Gentleman of 16 July'' (U.S.), ''Under the Stars of Nice'', ''Robbery Under the Streets of Nice'', and ''Cinq Milliards au bout de l'égout'' (1977)
[Translation from original French version.]
* ''
On Wings of Eagles
''On Wings of Eagles'' is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells a story based on the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by ...
'' (1983)
References
Further reading
* ''Ken Follett: The Transformation of a Writer'' (), written by Carlos Ramet.
Popular Press, November 1990.
* ''Ken Follett and the Triumph of Suspense'' (), written by Carlos Ramet.
McFarland & Company, Inc., January 2015.
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