LC control no. | n 50007323 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR6063.A8875 |
Personal name heading | Mayle, Peter |
Variant(s) | מייל, פיטר |
Associated country | Great Britain |
Located | Provence (France) Amagansett (N.Y.) Ménerbes (France) |
Birth date | 1939-06-14 |
Death date | 2018-01-18 |
Place of birth | Brighton (England) |
Place of death | France |
Profession or occupation | Authors |
Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | His What's happening to me? 1975. His Hotel Pastis, 1993: CIP t.p. (Peter Mayle) pub. info. (educ.: Brighton Coll., Eng. & Harrison Coll., Barbados; res. Menerbes, France) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 19, 2018 (in obituary published Jan. 18: Peter Mayle; b. June 14, 1939, Brighton, England; d. Thursday [Jan. 18, 2018], at a hospital near his home in Southern France, aged 78; started a writing career in his 30s with sex-education books for children before making a spectacularly successful switch to the travel memoir genre with A year in Provence, his 1989 best seller; moved with his wife to Ménerbes, Provence, 1987; moved to Amagansett, Long Island after the TV series A year in Provence was broadcast, to escape the attention and also to get back to his native language; spent four years in English-speaking territory, then returned to Southern France, but to a different house, one whose location, this time, they kept a closely guarded secret) |
Associated language | eng |