George Pendle
George Pendle | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) |
| Occupation | Author and journalist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Stowe School |
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford |
George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist.
He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford.
After working at The Times from 1997 to 2001, Pendle wrote his first book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).
Pendle's second book – The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore.
His third book, Death: A Life (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love.
A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title Happy Failure in 2014.
Pendle's articles can be found in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Cabinet magazine, History Today,[1] and Bidoun. He lives in New York City, where he has also written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
References
[edit]- ^ "George Pendle". History Today. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
Bibliography
[edit]- Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005) ISBN 0-297-84853-4
- The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007) ISBN 0-307-33962-9
- Death: A Life (2008) ISBN 978-0-307-39560-3
- Happy Failure (2014) ISBN 1-938-56016-7
- The Book of Stamps, introduction by George Pendle (New York: Cabinet Books, 2008). ISBN 9781932698398, 1932698396
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