Official biography of Terry Pratchett

Official biography of Terry Pratchett to be published

"A Life With Footnotes, by the late author’s former assistant and friend, has been authorised by Pratchett’s estate and is due to be released in September.

"Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett’s former assistant and friend, is writing the official biography of the late Discworld author, which will move from his childhood to the "embuggerance" of the Alzheimer’s disease he was diagnosed with in 2007.

"Pratchett was working on his autobiography when he died in 2015, but "following his untimely death from Alzheimer’s disease, the mantle of completing Terry Pratchett’s memoir was passed to Rob", said publisher Transworld.

"It will include "fragments" from the memoir Pratchett was working on before he died, the publisher added. ..."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/official-biography-of-terry-pratch...

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P.S. Surely the LT author Rob Wilkins is more than one person?

>1 Cynfelyn: Thank you for posting that, and for joining our group! I will look forward to reading this.

Waterstones have deluxe editions of this book, though one of them is already sold out. The other at 40 Pounds is currently still available.

oh I am so excited to hear this! I have just preordered it with my locall indie and can't wait for September to come!

Finished terry pratchett life with footnotes the first part, talking about his childhood through writing his first book was excellent as was the last section after his diagnosis until his very untimely death, was even more (and required several kleenex to get through.) In between was lots of talk about book selling book publishing, times when Pratchett behaved very badly, various anectdotes from various people, things that the author of the bio was involved in, and some parts of Pratchetts personality which led me to rather dislike him somewhat (tho understood why he did the things he did). Very little surprisingly about the actual writing of books, some here and there that were interesting. But more than the awards and accolades and such, thats what I wanted to know the most. so... I started out with 5 stars went down to three. still not sure. I remember meeting him, and loving his work. Maybe I should just start rereading Discworld. That might help

then I happened upon this review "I had to take a star off my rating, because the main character dies. Surely a mistake. With the familiarity of deep friendship, and obvious respect, Rob Wilkins shares with us Sir Terry's irascible views, easily kindled curiosity, and unfailing satisfaction with tinkering. the biography is told with a deft hand, never hiding the fact that this is *not* being written as an unbiased account of a literary figure. It is instead a loving reminiscence of a life lived large.

Mind how you go."

I have not read this yet. If it isn't under the tree for Christmas I will be buying it for myself first chance.

tell us what you think afterwards!

This book won a Hugo!

I just finished this. I cried multiple times in reading it. I was fascinated to learn more about Sir Terry Pratchett, although I admit to wondering more about his wife and daughter relationships.

I feel, more than reading The Shepherd's Crown, this is a goodbye to PTerry, although he will live on in his books that I will continue to read.