Pete Davies is an English author of history and sports.
Career
He wrote ''American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age'' about the
1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, for which Davies visited sites along the
Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the United States and one of the first highways designed expressly for automobiles. Conceived in 1912 by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October 31, 1913 ...
. His newspaper clippings are part of the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.
Davies' ''All Played Out'', an eyewitness account of the
England men's football team at the
1990 World Cup
The 1990 FIFA World Cup was the 14th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was held from 8 June to 8 July 1990 in Italy, the second country to host the event for a second time (the first being ...
,
was adapted into ''
One Night in Turin'', a documentary film, in 2010.
The original book has been described as "the best football book ever written".
In
1994–95, Davies turned his attentions to
women's football and spent the season with
Doncaster Belles while writing ''I Lost my Heart to the Belles''.
Davies settled in
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...
,
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...
, where in 2010 he worked at the local
Sainsbury's
J Sainsbury plc, trading as Sainsbury's, is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 14.6% share of UK supermarket sales.
Founded in 1869 by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company ...
supermarket and had a season ticket for
Huddersfield Town
Huddersfield Town Association Football Club is a professional football club based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, which compete in the . The team have played home games at the Kirklees Stadium since moving from Leeds Road in 1994. Th ...
.
Bibliography
Novels
*(1986) ''Last Election''
*(1989) ''Dollarville''
*(2017) ''Playlist''
Non-fiction
* (1990) ''All Played Out''
* (1992) ''Storm Country: A Journey to the Heart of America''
* (1994) ''Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to Soccer and World Cup '94''
* (1996) ''I Lost My Heart to The Belles''
* (1998) ''This England''
* (1998) ''Mad Dogs and English Women''
* (1999) ''Catching Cold''; published in the United States as ''The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It''
* (2001) ''The Devil's Music: Into the Eye of the Hurricane''
* (2002) ''American Road''
Film adaptations
* 2010 ''
One Night in Turin'' — directed by James Erskine
References
External links
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century births
Historians of the United States
20th-century English writers
21st-century English writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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