Name Gerald Seymour Role Writer | Movies A Line in the Sand | |
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Parents Rosalind Wade, William Kean Seymour Nominations Edgar Award for Best Novel, CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Books A Deniable Death, Harry's Game, The Corporal's Wife, Holding The Zero, The Journeyman Tailor | ||
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Gerald Seymour (born 25 November 1941 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British writer.
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- Peter james gerald seymour authors studio meet the masters
- The dealer and the dead gerald seymour
- Early life
- Career
- References
The dealer and the dead gerald seymour
Early life
Gerald Seymour was born to William Kean Seymour and his second wife, Rosalind Wade. He was educated at Kelly College now known as Mount Kelly in Tavistock Devon and took a BA Hons degree in Modern History at University College London.
Career
Initially a journalist, he joined ITN in 1963, covering such topics as the Great Train Robbery, Vietnam War, The Troubles, the Munich Olympics massacre, Germany's Red Army Faction, Italy's Red Brigades and Palestinian militant groups. His first book, Harry's Game, was published in 1975, and Seymour then became a full-time novelist, living in the West Country. In 1999, he featured in the Oscar-winning television film, One Day in September, which portrayed the Munich massacre. He has been a full-time writer since 1978.
Television adaptations have been made of his books Harry's Game, The Glory Boys, The Contract, Red Fox, The Informant based on Field of Blood, A Line in the Sand and The Waiting Time.