George Pendle
British author and journalist (born 1976) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist.
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Born | 1976 (age 47ā48) |
Occupation | Author and journalist |
Language | English |
Nationality | British |
Education | Stowe School |
Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford |
He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford.
After working at The Times from 1997 to 2001, Pendle wrote his first book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).
Pendle's second book ā The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore.
His third book, Death: A Life (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love.
A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title Happy Failure in 2014.
Pendle's articles can be found in the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Cabinet magazine, History Today,[1] and Bidoun. He lives in New York City, where he has also written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.