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Bernard Cornwell is a master of history and master of the pen. He is an author of historical novels and a illegitimate child of war. He began writing to support his family, and soon became known for his novels about the Napoleonic Wars, featuring the magnificent Richard Sharpe. His series were so popular that they were adapted into a successful television series and serials for BBC and ITV.

Early Life

Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944, as a child of war. His mother was a English citizen in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. His father was an airman for the Canadian airforce. But he was an “illegitimate” child and his parents put him up for adoption. Later Cornwell was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins of Thundersley, Essex. The Wiggins were members of a now extinct religious sect, called the Peculiar People. The group was extremely script and forbade “frivolity” which included television, dancing, alcohol, cigarettes, and even conventional medicine. When he was old enough to leave, he went to London University and took his mother’s maiden name, Cornwell.

After graduating from the University of London, he worked as a teacher. He tried to join the British armed services three times, but was rejected because of nearsightedness. After teaching, he got a job with BBC’s Nationwide. He then became the editor of Thames television news. In 1979, he moved to the United States with his American bride. He wasn’t able to receive a green card right away, and as a result was unable to work legitimately in the country. So he began working as a novelist because it didn’t require a work permit.

Career

When he was a boy, Cornwell read C.S. Forester’s novels which chronicle the adventures of Horatio Hornblower, a fictional British navy officer in the Napoleonic wars. Motivated by a need to make a living, Cornwell decided to write a series about one of the characters, Lord Wellington, and his campaigns on land. He named his main character Richard Sharp (a rugby player).

Cornwell began writing a short series Sharpe’s Eagle and Sharpe’s Gold (1981) and then later Sharpe’s Company (1982). Cornwell and his wife then co-wrote another series of novels: A Crowning Mercy (1983), Fallen Angels (1984), and Coat of Arms (1986) under the pseudonym “Susannah Kells.” In 1987, he published Redcoat, a book set in Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War. Cornwell then wrote a series of thrillers about sailing. In 2008, he published Azincourt about a soldier in the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. He released the final two novels of his Saxon Stories collection with The Burning Land (2009) and Death of Kings (2011). Cornwell enjoyed being a serial novelist, and focused much of his career on this endeavor. However he did publish a few successful standalone novels like The Fort (2010).

The Sharpe Series

The Sharpe series was the first series undertaken by Cornwell. The first 11 books of the series involves Sharpe’ s adventures in the Peninsular War over 6-7 years. Cornwell decided to write a prequel quintet to the first 11 books – Sharpe’s Tiger, Sharpe’s Triumph, Sharpe’s Fortress, Sharpe’s Trafalgar, and Sharpe’s Prey. This quintet follows Sharpe’s adventures in India. The series also included the addition of two more books, Sharpe’s Devil, six years after the end of the wars, and Sharpe’s Battle, taking place during the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro.

Sharpe’s Eagle (1981)

The first book in the Richard Sharpe series put Cornwell on the map. This gritty portrayal of the Napoleonic War set in Talavera introduces Captain Richard Sharpe. After a devastating defeat and the theft of their colors, Sharpe’s regiment begins to turn on him. He must fight to regain his honor and the loyalty of his men.

Sharpe’s Gold (1981)

The second book in the Sharpe series finds sSharpe and his regiment in trouble when his regiment runs out of money and supplies. Their only hope lies in finding a Portuguese treasure. To do this, Sharpe might have to betray his men.

Television Adaptation

After publishing his first eight novels, Cornwell was approached by a production company about turning the Sharpe series into a television show. But they asked him to write another book so they would have a starting point for the television show. As a result, Cornwell wrote Sharpe’s Rifle.

The television show was filmed for ITV. It starred Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. At first Cornwell did not approve of Sean Bean playing his beloved character. But when he saw his portrayal on the screen, Cornwell was absolutely delighted and dedicated his novel, Sharpe’s Battle, to the actor. He even admitted to changing the writing in his books to match how Bean would act or do. For example, Cornwell didn’t think Bean’s physical appearance did not match the dark haired Sharpe in the books. But as soon as he saw Bean’s interpretation of the character, Cornwell stopped mentioning Sharpe’s hair color all together. The show was produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace. The series was shot in Crimea, Spain, Portugal, England, and Turkey.

The series ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2006, ITV partnered with BBC America to produce new episodes ofo Sharpe based on his adventures in India. Sean Bean was called to reprise his role as Richard Sharpe. The result was Sharpe’s Challenge, a two-part event. The first part aired on ITV on April 23, 2006 and the next part aired the next day. The adventure series premiered on BBC America in September, 2006. 2 more episodes were scheduled to be made in 2006, but the production was postponed twice. The first was because of the resignation of ITV’s chief executive, the second was because Sean Bean wasn’t available at the time. Finally Sharpe’s Peril was produced by Celtic Film/ Picture Palace in 2008. It was broadcasted on ITV in November of 2008. It aired in the United States in 2010 on PBS.

Bernard Cornwell is a British author who writes historical novels steeped in the beauty and savageness of war. Although he has a great body of standalone novels, he is known best as a serial novelist. His most popular series is the Sharpe series, which features Richard Sharpe. The success of Sharpe has led the author’s written masterpiece to a multitude of exciting television adaptations. Cornwell continues to write exciting tales of war starring Richard Sharpe from his homes in Massachusetts and South Carolina.

Bernard Cornwell, OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has written historical novels primarily on English history in five series, and one series of contemporary thriller novels. A feature of his historical novels is an end note on how they match or differ from history, and what one might see at the modern site of the battles described. One series is set in the American Civil War. He wrote a nonfiction book on the battle of Waterloo, in addition to the fictional story of the famous battle in the Sharpe Series. Two of the historical novel series have been adapted for television: the Sharpe television series by ITV and The Last Kingdom by BBC. He lives in the US with his wife, alternating between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Charleston, South Carolina.^[1]

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Biography[edit]

Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was Canadian airman William Oughtred^[1] and his mother was Englishwoman Dorothy Cornwell, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Thundersley, Essex by the Wiggins family; they were members of the Peculiar People, a strict sect of pacifists who banned frivolity of all kinds, and even medicine up to 1930. Reacting to being raised by Christian Fundamentalists, he grew up rejecting all religions and became an atheist.^[2]

After his adoptive father died, he changed his last name by deed poll from Wiggins to Cornwell, his birth mother's maiden name. Prior to that, he used Bernard Cornwell as a pen name.^[3] He met his father for the first time when he was 58, after telling a journalist on a book tour, 'what I wanted to see in Vancouver was my real father.'^[1] There he met his half-siblings, with whom he shares many traits, and learned his genealogy.^[3]

Cornwell was sent to Monkton Combe School in Somerset. He read history at University College London^[4] between 1963 and 1966^[5] and worked as a teacher after graduating. He attempted to enlist in the British armed services at least three times, but was rejected on the grounds of myopia.

Following his work as a teacher, Cornwell joined the BBC's Nationwide and was later promoted to head of current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland. He then joined Thames Television as editor of Thames News.^[6] His first marriage ended in divorce in 1970s.^[3] He met his second wife in 1978 in Edinburgh while he worked for BBC Northern Ireland; she was a travel agent from the US and the mother of three children from a previous marriage. He relocated to the United States in 1979 after marrying her. He was unable to get a United States Permanent Resident Card (green card), so he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit.^[1] He later became a United States citizen.^[3][7]

Career[edit]

As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C. S. Forester chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napoleonic Wars. He was surprised to find that there were no such novels following Lord Wellington's campaign on land, so he wrote that series himself—further motivated by the need to support himself through writing. He created his chief protagonist as a rifleman involved in most of the major battles of the Peninsular War, taking the character's name from rugby player Richard Sharp.^[8][9]

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Cornwell wanted to start the series with the Siege of Badajoz but decided instead to start with a couple of 'warm-up' novels. These were Sharpe's Eagle and Sharpe's Gold, both published in 1981.^[10] He went on to tell the story of Badajoz in Sharpe's Company published in 1982. He had a seven-book deal with publisher HarperCollins, after linking with Toby Eady as his agent.^[3]

Cornwell and wife Judy co-wrote a series of novels published under the pseudonym 'Susannah Kells': A Crowning Mercy published in 1983, Fallen Angels in 1984, and Coat of Arms (aka The Aristocrats) in 1986. Tekken 6 psp iso скачать torrent. Cornwell's strict Protestant upbringing forms the background of A Crowning Mercy, which takes place during the English Civil War. He also published Redcoat in 1987, an American Revolutionary War novel set in Philadelphia during its 1777 occupation by the British.

Cornwell was approached by a production company interested in making television adaptations of the first eight books of his Sharpe series. They asked him to write a background novel to give them a starting point to the series, and they also requested that the story feature a large role for Spanish characters in order to secure co-funding from Spain. The result was Sharpe's Rifles, published in 1987 and set when the English retreated at A Coruña until Wellesley arrived in Spain. It also resulted in a series of Sharpe television films starring Sean Bean.^[11]

This was followed by a series of modern thrillers with sailing as a background and common themes: Wildtrack published in 1988, Sea Lord (or Killer's Wake) in 1989, Crackdown in 1990, Stormchild in 1991, and the political thriller Scoundrel in 1992.

Cornwell wrote two books a year for a long time, slowing to one book per year in his sixties.^[3] He views historical fiction as presenting a big story in the historical events and a little story in the fictional plot. Patrick O'Brian wrote the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventures set in the Napoleonic era, and he said that there was 'too much plot, not enough lifestyle' in both Cornwell's novels and those of C. S. Forester. Cornwell took that as a compliment and an accurate appraisal of the difference between their styles, while appreciating the favorable comparison to Forester.^[3]

With the success of the Sharpe series, Cornwell began to write about other time periods and historical events of English and American history, both in series and in single novels. Azincourt was released in the UK in October 2008. The protagonist is an archer who participates in the Battle of Agincourt, a devastating defeat suffered by the French during the Hundred Years' War. In 2004, he released The Last Kingdom, beginning the Saxon Stories centered on protagonist Uhtred of Bebbanburg and telling how the nation of England began under Alfred the Great. The ninth novel in the series was published in 2015 as Warriors of the Storm. He realized that few in England knew how England began, unlike Americans who have a clear date for their nation's beginning—so this became his big story. His own ancestral roots gave him the little story in the protagonist Uhtred.^[3][12][13]

The Fort is another of Cornwell's standalone novels, published in 2010. It tells of the Penobscot Expedition of 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. He has been successful overall in his writing career, selling 30 million books by 2015 throughout the various series and individual novels, and he continues to write new novels.^[1]

Honours[edit]

In June 2006, Cornwell was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's 80th Birthday Honours List.^[14]

Novel series[edit]

Sharpe stories[edit]

Cornwell's first series of historical novels features the adventures of Richard Sharpe, an English soldier during the Napoleonic Wars, in particular the Peninsular Wars once Arthur Wellesley was sent to lead the campaign against Napoleon's forces on the Iberian Peninsula. The first 11 books of the Sharpe series began with Sharpe's Rifles and ended with Sharpe's Waterloo, published in the US as Waterloo. These detail Sharpe's adventures in various Peninsular War campaigns over the course of seven years. Subsequently, Cornwell wrote Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe's Triumph, Sharpe's Fortress, Sharpe's Trafalgar, and Sharpe's Prey, depicting Sharpe's earlier adventures under Wellington's command in India, including his hard-won promotion to the officer corps, his return to Britain, and his arrival in the 95th Rifles; he also wrote the sequel Sharpe's Devil, set six years after the end of the wars. Sharpe's Battle takes place during the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro. Since 2003, he has written further 'missing adventures' set during the Peninsular War era, based on major battles of that long campaign, for a total of 24 novels in this series.

Cornwell mentions in notes at the end of the Sharpe series that he was initially dubious about the casting of Sean Bean for the television adaptations, but that the doubts did not last and he was subsequently so delighted that he dedicated Sharpe's Battle to him. He has admitted that he subtly changed the writing of the character to align with Bean's portrayal as now he 'could not imagine Sharpe as anyone else'. One of Cornwell's initial misgivings about Bean was that he did not physically resemble the black-haired Sharpe whom he described in the early books, but he thought that Bean understood and acted the part perfectly, and he subsequently refrained from mentioning Sharpe's hair color.^[15]

Warlord Chronicles[edit]

A trilogy depicting Cornwell's historical re-creation of ArthurianBritain. The series posits that post-Roman Britain was a difficult time for the native Britons, being threatened by invasion from the Anglo-Saxons in the East and raids from the Irish in the West. At the same time, they suffered internal power struggles between their petty kingdoms and friction between the old Druidic religion and newly arrived Christianity. The author has often said that these are his own favourite stories.^{[citation needed]}

Grail Quest novels[edit]

This series deals with a mid-14th century search for the Holy Grail during the Hundred Years' War. English archer Thomas of Hookton becomes drawn into the quest by the actions of a mercenary soldier called 'The Harlequin' who murders Thomas' family in his obsessive search for the Grail. Cornwell was planning at one point to write more books about Thomas of Hookton and said that, shortly after finishing Heretic, he had 'started another Thomas of Hookton book, then stopped it—mainly because I felt that his story ended in Heretic and I was just trying to get too much from him. Which doesn't mean I won't pick the idea up again sometime in the future.'^[16] He returned to the character in 1356 published in 2012.

Saxon Stories/The Last Kingdom[edit]

Cornwell's latest series focuses on the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, England during the 9th-century reign of Alfred the Great, his fierce opposition to the Danes and his determination to unite England as one country. The series idea took shape in his mind after meeting his real father in Canada in his fifties, learning his own ancestry back to that era, to Oughtred of Bebbanburg who became Uhtred, the protagonist of the series.^[12] Cornwell realised that most English people are unaware of how England came to be, rather than say, Dane-land, in that era of multiple peoples on the island of Great Britain.^[1] The first novel was published in 2004. The series continues after the death of Alfred, as his heirs consolidate the nation. The most recent novel, War of the Wolf, is the eleventh. It was published in October 2018.

The Last Kingdom and The Pale Horseman were the basis for the first season of the television series, The Last Kingdom, while The Lords of the North and Sword Song were the basis for the second season. A third season, based on The Burning Land and Death of Kings, was released in November 2018. And Netflix has now confirmed a 4th season.^[17]

Starbuck Chronicles[edit]

Four novels set during the American Civil War follow the adventures of Boston-born Nathaniel Starbuck during his service in the Confederate Army. The series is notable for an appearance by Richard Sharpe's son as a supporting character.

Thriller series[edit]

Cornwell's thriller series are modern mysteries, all with sailing themes. He is a traditional sailor and enjoys sailing his Cornish Crabber christened Royalist. According to Cornwell's website, there may be no additions to the series: 'I enjoyed writing the thrillers, but suspect I am happier writing historical novels. I'm always delighted when people want more of the sailing books, but I'm not planning on writing any more, at least not now – but who knows? perhaps when I retire'.^[18]

Nonfiction[edit]

In addition to his many novels, including a fictional account (Sharpe's Waterloo) of the battle of Waterloo, Cornwell published a nonfiction book, Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles, released in September 2014, in time for the 200th anniversary of that battle.^[19]

Bibliography[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcdefBrown, Maggie (17 October 2015). 'Bernard Cornwell: BBC made The Last Kingdom due to its 'interesting echoes of today''. The Guardian. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
2. ^Toby Harnden (15 September 2011). 'A Page in the Life: Bernard Cornwell'. The Telegraph. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
3. ^ ^abcdefghHarnden, Toby (15 September 2011). 'A Page in the Life: Bernard Cornwell'. The Telegraph. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
4. ^'Bernard Cornwell: BBC made The Last Kingdom due to its 'interesting echoes of today''. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
5. ^'Bernard Cornwell: Interview'. The Bookseller. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
6. ^'Cornwell Biography'. Bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com. Archived from the original on 25 February 2008. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
7. ^'Interview with Bernard Cornwell'. Radio.nationalreview.com. 21 January 2009. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
8. ^'About Sharpe'. Yesterday. UK tv. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
9. ^'A word from Bernard Cornwell'. Southessex.co.uk. 29 September 2002. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
10. ^Cornwell, Bernard (1994). Sharpe's Eagle. London: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. vi–vii. ISBN978-0-00-780509-9.
11. ^Cornwell, Bernard (1994). Sharpe's Rifles. London: HarperCollins Publishers. pp. 7–9. ISBN978-0-00-779651-9.
12. ^ ^abLafferty, Hannah (31 January 2014). 'Bernard Cornwell Talks The Pagan Lord, The Challenges of Historical Fiction, And Future Plans'. Emertainment Monthly. Boston: Emerson College. Archived from the original on 22 June 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
13. ^'Warriors of the Storm'. Kirkus Reviews. 22 October 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
14. ^'No. 58014'. The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2006. p. 24.
15. ^'Richard Sharpe bio'. The South Essex. Archived from the original on 16 September 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2008.
16. ^Cornwell, Bernard. 'Cornwell's comment on Heretic'. Author's Official site. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2007.
17. ^'The Last Kingdom Renewed For Season 4 By Netflix!'. TV Shows Cancelled. 14 November 2018. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
18. ^'The Author's Official site – Sharpe Books dot com'. Bernard Cornwell. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
19. ^Bernard Cornwell. 'Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles'. Fantastic Fiction. Archived from the original on 9 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.

External links[edit]

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• Bernard Cornwell Interview on Medieval Archives Podcast
• Interview, chapter excerpts and Cornwell essay Stonehenge (Official publisher web page)