Peter May (writer)

Fraser Award 1973 Scottish Young Journalist of the Year Prix Intramuros 2007 Snakehead

Peter May was born in Glasgow. From an early age he was intent on becoming a novelist, but took up a career as a journalist as a way to start earning a living by writing. He made his first serious attempt at writing a novel at the age of 19, which he sent to Collins where it was read by Philip Ziegler, who wrote him a very encouraging rejection letter. At the age of 21, he won the Fraser Award and was named Scotlands Young Journalist of the Year. He went on to write for The Scotsman and the Glasgow Evening Times. At the age of 26, Mays first novel, The Reporter, was published. May was asked to adapt the book as a television series for the British television network the BBC, and left journalism in 1978 to begin to write fulltime for television.

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