Philip Kerr

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Philip Kerr
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Kerr at PEN American Center in 2014
Born
Philip Ballantyne Kerr

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Edinburgh, Scotland
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London, England
Pen nameP. B. Kerr
OccupationAuthor
SpouseJane Thynne (m. 19??)
Children3
Website
philipkerr.org

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Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a Scottish author,[1][2][3] best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers.

Early life

Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an engineer and his mother worked as a secretary.[4] He was educated at a grammar school in Northampton. He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1974 to 1980, gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy.[5] Kerr worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi & Saatchi[5] before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. In a 2012 interview, Kerr noted that he began his literary career at the age of twelve by writing pornographic stories and lending them to classmates for a fee.[5]

Career

A writer of both adult fiction and non-fiction, he is known for the Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther series of 14 historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War. He also wrote children's books under the name P. B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series. Kerr wrote for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, and the New Statesman. He was married to fellow novelist Jane Thynne; they lived in Wimbledon, London,[6] and had three children. While fighting cancer, he completed the fourteenth Bernie Gunther novel, Metropolis, which was published after his death, in 2019.[7]

Awards and honours

In 1993, Kerr was named in Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists.[5] In 2009, If the Dead Rise Not won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000.[8] The book also won the British Crime Writers' Association's Ellis Peters Historic Crime Award that same year.[9] His novel, Prussian Blue, was longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize.

Death

Kerr died at age 62 from bladder cancer on 23 March 2018.[10]

Publications

Novels

Bernie Gunther series

Scott Manson novels

Stand alone novels

Non fiction

  • The Penguin Book of Lies. 1991;1996
  • The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy. 1992;1993

Children's fiction (as P. B. Kerr)

Children of the Lamp

  • The Akhenaten Adventure. London: Scholastic Press, 2004. Template:ISBN
  • The Blue Djinn of Babylon. London: Scholastic Press, 2005. Template:ISBN
  • The Cobra King of Kathmandu. London: Scholastic Press, 2006. Template:ISBN
  • The Day of the Djinn Warriors. London: Scholastic Press, 2007. Template:ISBN
  • The Eye of the Forest. London: Scholastic Press, 2009. Template:ISBN
  • The Five Fakirs of Faizabad. London: Scholastic Press, 2010.
  • The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan. London: Scholastic Press, 2011.

Stand alone fiction

  • One Small Step. London: Simon & Schuster, 2008 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • The Most Frightening Story Ever Told. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Template:ISBN
  • Friedrich der Große Detektiv (Frederick the Great Detective).[16] Rowohlt Verlag, 2017. Template:ISBN

Notes

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Philip Kerr". International Science Fiction Database.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The International Who's Who 2004. Europa Publications. 2003. p. 875. Philip Kerr 22 February.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Philip Kerr". Wavesound. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sandomir, Richard (27 March 2018). "Philip Kerr, 62, Author of 'Gunther' Crime Novels, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Toby Clements (23 January 2012). "Philip Kerr: Interview". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lauren May (13 September 2013). "Tom Hanks poised to bring novels of Wimbledon author Philip Kerr to small screen". Your Local Guardian. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Quercus pays tribute to 'cherished' author Philip Kerr - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Giles Tremlett (3 September 2009). "Philip Kerr wins €125,000 RBA crime writing prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Philip Kerr wins the 2009 CWA Ellis Peters Historic Crime Award" (Press release). The Crime Writers' Association. 29 October 2009. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kean, Danuta (25 March 2018). "Philip Kerr obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  11. ^ The text on the dust jacket of UK hardback editions of Field Grey, as well as many listings at online retailers, contain an incorrect early plot summary referencing many elements – including the Isle of Pines as a location and Fidel Castro and a French intelligence officer named Thibaud as characters – that do not appear in the final book.
  12. ^ Prague Fatale was originally announced under the title The Man with the Iron Heart. The name had to be changed shortly before publication, when the publishers discovered there was already a novel with the same title, also about Reinhard Heydrich, by author Harry Turtledove.
  13. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Philip Kerr".
  14. ^ Dead Meat was adapted for British television as Grushko, and a media tie-in edition was later published with that title.
  15. ^ As of 2023, published only in German and Turkish translations.
  16. ^ As of 2023, published only in a German translation.

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