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Terry Pratchett (b. April 28, 1948, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy. Pratchett is best known for his Discworld series. Other notable works include his The Bromeliad trilogy and his Johnny Maxwell trilogy. Pratchett won the Carnegie Medal for children's books for his novel The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents in 2001. In December, 2007, Pratchett was revealed to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Pratchett began writing at a young age. At thirteen he sold his story which allowed him to purchase a second-hand typewriter. He was a published author at fifteen. His first novel, The Carpet People was published in 1971 by Colin Smythe.

Pratchett worked for several years as a journalist and press officer, writing novels in his spare time. He released the first in the Discworld series, The Color of Magic in 1983. 35 books in the series followed, four of which are written for children.

Pratchett collaborated with fellow author, Neil Gaiman in 1990 on Good Omens. The book was reissued by William Morrow in 2006.

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Books

Discworld

Other Fiction

Non fiction series

• Discworld (Non fiction)
• The Science of Discworld (1992) (with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart)
• Streets of Ankh Morpork (1993)
• The Discworld Companion (1994)
• The Pratchett Portfolio (1996)
• Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary (1998)
• The Discworld: Day-to-Day Calendar (1998)
• A Tourist Guide to Lancre (1998) (with Stephen Briggs, Paul Kidby)
• Death's Domain: A Discworld Mapp (1999) (with Paul Kidby)
• Discworld - Mini Calendar 2000 (1999)
• Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (1999)
• Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (1999) (with Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan)
• The Discworld Calendar: 2001 (2000)
• 0. The Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 (2000)
• The Discworld Mapp (2000) (with Stephen Briggs)
• Discworld Also (2001)
• The Discworld Calendar: 2002 (2001)
• The Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002 (2001)
• Discworld Thieves' Guild Diary 2002 (2001)
• Discworld Guild Diary 2003 (2002)
• The New Discworld Companion (2002)
• The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (2002)
• Discworld Calendar 2004 (2003)
• The Art of Discworld (2004) (with Paul Kidby)
• The Celebrated Discworld Almanac (2004)
• Discworld Calendar 2005 (2004)
• The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (2005)
• The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007 (2006) (with Stephen Briggs)

Books about Terry Pratchett

• The Unseen University Challenge (1996) by David Langford
• Discworld II - Missing Presumed ...: the Official Strategy Guide (1996) by Paul Kidd
• Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature (2000) by Andrew M Butler, Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn
• The Wyrdest Link (2002) by David Langford
• Dragons of Fantasy: The Scaly Villains and Heroes of Tolkien, Rowling, McCaffrey, Pratchett and Other Fantasy Greats (2004) by Anne C Petty
• The Turtle Moves! (2008) by Lawrence Watt-Evans

Awards

World Fantasy Award Best Novel nominee' (1991) : Good Omens
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1996) : Hogfather
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee' (1997) : Jingo
Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (2001) : The Truth
Carnegie Medal Best Novel winner (2002) : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Prometheus Award Best Novel winner' (2003) : Night Watch
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2005) : Going Postal

External Links

• Official site
• Terry Pratchett at Internet Movie Database
• Terry Pratchett at ISFDB.org
• Terry Pratchett at Fantastic Fiction
• Interview

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