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Mayle, Peter

LC control no.n 50007323
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6063.A8875
Personal name headingMayle, Peter
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Variant(s)מייל, פיטר
Associated countryGreat Britain
LocatedProvence (France) Amagansett (N.Y.)
Ménerbes (France)
Birth date1939-06-14
Death date2018-01-18
Place of birthBrighton (England)
Place of deathFrance
Profession or occupationAuthors
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Found inHis 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 languageeng