Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell OBE is an English author born in London in 1944 to a Canadian airman father and British Women's Auxiliary Air Force mother. He is best known for his long-running Sharpe series about a Napoleonic Wars rifleman, and has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England. After working as a teacher and spending ten years with BBC Television, he became a full-time author and has written over 50 novels.

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