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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

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Author Biography

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
5515 words, approx. 18.4 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 author...
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Biography of Ken Follet
4035 words, approx. 13.5 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 to...
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Biography of Ken Follett
3387 words, approx. 11.3 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 ev...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Pillars of the Earth Information
2,630 words, approx. 9 pages
The Pillars of the Earth is a 1989 historical novel by Ken Follett about the building of a cathedral in Kingsbridge, England. It is set in the middle of the 12th century, primarily during the time known as The Anarchy, between the time of the sinking of...


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The Boston Globe
US rejects treaty on species, a pillar of the Earth Summit
05/31/1992: 374 words, approx. 1 pages
contributed to this report. WASHINGTON -- Less than a week before the start of the Earth Summit, the Bush administration has said it will not sign a treaty to preserve the world's plants, animals and natural resources, and President Bush has lashed out...
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The Washington Post
The Bridge Builder; Ken Follett's long-awaited sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth" is a rousing epic of 14th-century England.
10/14/2007: 954 words, approx. 3 pages
WORLD WITHOUT END By Ken Follett Dutton. 1,014 pp. $35The millions of readers who enjoyed Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth (1989) will certainly enjoy its sequel, World Without End. While it would be grossly unfair to say that it's the same...
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AP News
Ken Follett is latest Oprah Winfrey pick
11/15/2007: 317 words, approx. 1 pages
Oprah 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...
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Lists of best-selling books
10/18/2007: 1,706 words, approx. 6 pages
WALL 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...
 


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