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Kerr, Philip

Country/Region:
United Kingdom
Born:
February 22, 1956
Dead:
March 23, 2018
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Fantasy, Science fiction, Children's literature
Philip Kerr was a Scottish author born in Edinburgh. His family were Baptists. Kerr read law and philosophy at the University of Birmingham with a special interest in German philosophy. After graduating he worked for a while as a copywriter until he became a full time novelist at the end of the 1980s. He was married to the author Jane Thynne. The couple had three children and lived in Wimbledon, London.

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