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Terry Pratchett is an English satirical fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK), best known for his Discworld series.
Originally employed as a local newspaper journalist ("I started work one morning and saw my first body two hours later, 'on-the-job training' meaning something in those days"), he became Press Officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board in an area which covered several nuclear power stations, just following the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in the USA.
He gave up his work for the CEGB when he realised he was earning several times as much money from his occasional writing, he has now sold in excess of 55 million books worldwide..
Terry Pratchett was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to literature in 1998.
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