After graduating from the University of London, he worked as a teacher. When he was old enough to leave, he went to London University and took his mother’s maiden name, Cornwell. The group was extremely script and forbade “frivolity” which included television, dancing, alcohol, cigarettes, and even conventional medicine. The Wiggins were members of a now extinct religious sect, called the Peculiar People. But he was an “illegitimate” child and his parents put him up for adoption. His father was an airman for the Canadian airforce. His mother was a English citizen in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. Early Lifeīernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944, as a child of war. His series were so popular that they were adapted into a successful television series and serials for BBC and ITV. He began writing to support his family, and soon became known for his novels about the Napoleonic Wars, featuring the magnificent Richard Sharpe. He is an author of historical novels and a illegitimate child of war. Sharpe's Christmas & Sharpe's Ransom (2 Short Stories)īernard Cornwell is a master of history and master of the pen.
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