The book was based on stories written for the children’s section of the Bucks Free Press. He used the fee of £14 to buy his first typewriter.ġ965 – He left school aged seventeen and worked as a journalist for the local newspaper, the Bucks Free Press (where he saw his first dead body on his first day as a roving reporter).ġ968 – Terry married his sweetheart Lyn Purves and in 1970 they moved to a cottage in Rowberrow, Somerset.ġ970 – He started work as a reporter at the Western Daily Mail.ġ971 – His first novel, The Carpet People, was published by Colin Smythe, who later became his agent. 1948 – Terry Pratchett was born on April 28th in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, the only child of David and Eileen Pratchett.ġ962 – Aged thirteen, Terry’s first story, Business Rivals, was published in the school magazine and commercially the following year.
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