Anton Gill (born in 1948) is a British writer of historical fiction and nonfiction. He won the H. H. Wingate Award for non-fiction for ''The Journey Back From Hell'', an account of the lives of survivors after their liberation from Nazi concentration camps.

Personal life

Gill was born in Ilford, Essex, and educated at

Chigwell School Chigwell School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school in the English Public School (United Kingdom), public school tradition located in Chigwell, in the Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest district of Essex. It consists of ...

and

Clare College Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the University after Peterhouse. It was refounded ...

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

. He started writing professionally in 1984 after fifteen years in the theatre. He lives in London with his wife, the actress

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. Other than writing, his chief interests are travel and art.

Career

Gill worked as an actor and as a director in the theatre (especially at the Royal Court Theatre in London), for the Arts Council, and for the BBC and TV-am (as writer and producer) before turning to full-time writing.Anton Gill
Fantastic Fiction He has been a full-time professional writer since 1984. He has published over 40 books on a variety of ancient and contemporary historical subjects, including three biographies. His work includes both fiction and non-fiction, where his special field is contemporary European history. In fiction, he has written a series of historical mysteries set in Ancient Egypt, during the

Amarna Period The Amarna Period was an era of History of Ancient Egypt, Egyptian history during the later half of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty when the royal residence of the pharaoh and his queen was shifted to Akhetaten ('Horizon of the ...

. These stories feature "the world's first private eye", the scribe, Huy, and have been published worldwide. Titles in the Huy series are ''City of the Horizon'' (1991), ''City of Dreams'' (1993), and ''City of the Dead'' (1994).Montserrat, Dominic. ''Akhenaten : History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt''.Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014. (pg. 164) More recently, he published ''

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'', a history-mystery, with Penguin. He is also the author of two major biographies, on ''

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'' and ''

Peggy Guggenheim Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim ( ; August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian and socialite. Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with t ...

'', and a study of Michelangelo, ‘Il Gigante’. His most recent titles are the novels 'City of Gold' (Penguin), 'The Accursed' (Piatkus), and 'Into Darkness' (Endeavour; Sharpe), ‘Lost and Found’ - trilogy (Sharpe), The Darkest Trap’.

Bibliography

;Non-fiction: *''The Journey Back from Hell'' (1988); eBook reissue (2015) *''A Dance between Flames'' *''An Honourable Defeat'' *''Berlin to Bucharest'' *''The Devil's Mariner'' *''Art Addict'' Fiction: *''The Egyptian Mysteries'' *''The Sacred Scroll'' *''City of Gold'' *''The Accursed'' *''Into Darkness'' *''Assassin's Creed: Renaissance'' (2009, as Oliver Bowden) *''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' (2010, as Oliver Bowden) *''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' (2011, as Oliver Bowden)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Anton Living people English writers Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge 1948 births English historical novelists English mystery writers Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity Writers of historical mysteries