Sir Terence David John Pratchett, who is popularly known as Terry Pratchett, was born in 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. Since selling his first novel, The Carpet People, at about fifteen years of age, Pratchett has written over 50 bestselling fantasy novels for both adults and school kids, winning several awards and rising to become UK's bestselling author.
Although he started his career as a journalist and press officer, Pratchett evolved into an English author and is best known for his fantasy novel series – Discworld. His children's book, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal. And according to Terry, the Carnegie Medal was the award that he was proud of the most.
Since his maiden novel in 1971 and the first novel of the Discworld series in 1983, Pratchett went ahead to write an average of two books every year. And in 2011, his Discworld novel Snuff sold over 55,000 copies by the third day after publication, becoming the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel in the UK since the establishment of the records.
Pratchett got married to Lyn Purves in 1968, and they had a daughter, Rhianna. In 2007, Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. He died in March 2015 following the protracted illness, the same year he printed the last book of the Disc World series, The Shepherd's Crown. Pratchett donated millions to Alzheimer's research. He was also a law reform advocate on assisted dying.
His unique comic fantasy style will continue to make future generations dazzle at his amazing fictional world he created. Today, Terry Pratchett is regarded as one of the noteworthy English satirists, with a long list of audiobook bestsellers. Terry Pratchett's audiobooks allow you to journey into his mind's work of using fantasy and satire to explore reality and life.
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