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| Name: |
Ken Follett | | Birth Date: |
June 5, 1949 | | Place of Birth: |
Cardiff, Wales | | Nationality: |
British, Welsh | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Novelist |
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 Biography of Ken(neth) (Martin) Follett
5,515 words, approx. 18 pages
 Ken Follett began his career as a fiction writer while working for the London Evening News. He produced a series of mysteries and thrillers (two for children) under various pseudonyms until he felt he had learned enough and written well enough to... summary from source:
 Biography of Ken Follet
4,035 words, approx. 14 pages
Ken Follett was born in Wales, "in a little terrace house in Cardiff in 1949. It was very much a petit-bourgeois background. My dad was a clerk in the Inland Revenue [English equivalent of the IRS], and I went to state schools. "At that time I wanted... summary from source:
Biography of Ken Follett
3,387 words, approx. 11 pages
Ken Follett, author of best-selling thrillers such as Eye of the Needle, Triple, The Key to Rebecca, The Man from St. Petersburg, The Third Twin, The Hammer of Eden, Code to Zero, and the 2001 title, Jackdaws, has created a winning blend of historical... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Follett, Ken (1949—) Summary
755 words, approx. 3 pages Writer Ken Follett burst upon the American fiction scene in 1978 with his mystery spy story Eye of the Needle. A taut thriller, it portrayed a central female character rising to heroism and a humanized villain together with a convincing image of World... summary from source:
 Ken Follett Information
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Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical...
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 The Boston Globe Ken Follett: Master of suspense
10/16/1991: 943 words, approx. 3 pages British novelist Ken Follett, a master of epic suspense, is perched on the edge of his seat. He alternately sips black coffee and fiddles with his red polka-dot tie that is pressed against a red and white peppermint-striped shirt. His look is serious... summary from source:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel New Ken Follett thriller is fast-paced
01/02/2001: 560 words, approx. 2 pages New Ken Follett thriller is fast-paced, uncomplicated By DAN FESPERMAN Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service Tuesday, January 2, 2001 Code to Zero. By Ken Follett. Dutton. 368 pages. $26.95. The engine of any Ken Follett thriller is plot,... summary from source:
 AP News Ken Follett is latest Oprah Winfrey pick
11/15/2007: 317 words, approx. 1 pagesOprah Winfrey went for the big time Wednesday with her latest book club pick, choosing Ken Follett's 973-page "The Pillars of the Earth," an announcement that will likely mean hundreds of thousands more sales for an author with a huge, international following.Winfrey, whose TV talk... summary from source:
AP News Lists of best-selling books
10/18/2007: 1,706 words, approx. 6 pagesWALL STREET JOURNAL BEST-SELLERSFICTION1. "World Without End" by Ken Follett (Dutton)2. "Playing for Pizza" by John Grisham (Doubleday)3. "The Choice" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)4. "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Hardcover)5. "Dark of the Moon" by John Sandford (Putnam Adult)6. "You've...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Michael Wood
532 words, approx. 2 pages
Eye of the Needle [is] a deft thriller…. The book is smartly put together along lines suggested by Frederick Forsyth and John Le Carré. As in The Day of the Jackal, a double narrative focuses on the pursuer and the pursued, with the suspense extremely well sustained…. The British in Eye of the Needle can be just as ruthless as anyone else—being thoroughly careless of lives that are of no practical value to them. There is a nicely rendered sense of England during the war …,... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Peter Andrews
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"The Key to Rebecca" is an assured best seller even before publication, with a first printing of 100,000 copies, a major subsidiary success with sales to the leading book clubs, a serialization smash with rights sold to just about every publication this side of Presbyterian Life, and a perfectly dreadful novel. I suppose it says something about American tastes in popular fiction but I don't like to think what. Mr. Follett's first novel, "The Eye of the Needle," got ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Roderick Macleish
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If Frederick Forsyth could write as well as he can plot and if John Le Carré could plot as well as he can write, one of them might have produced Eye Of The Needle. This is, quite simply, the best spy novel to come out of England in years. If it ranks below Ambler and Greene at their best, it is because Ken Follett is writing in retrospect about a world and time he could not have known. The 1939–45 war was, to its philosophic witnesses, a moral crisis. A sense of hesitant and then enraged ethic...
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