Name Peter Chrisp | Role Author | |
Books Ancient Egypt revealed, DK Readers: Space St, Welcome to the Globe, Mesopotamia - Iraq in ancient ti, A Tudor School Similar People Philip Steele, Rupert Matthews, Richard Holmes, Jude Welton | ||
Peter Chrisp (born 20 May 1958) is a British children's author of books on history. With over eighty books published, his various works include Blitzkrieg!, Dorling Kindersly's Ancient Egypt Revealed and Ancient Rome Revealed, The Spanish Conquests of the New World, and many more.
He first began writing history after working on the Mass-Observation archive at the University of Sussex. He has also worked as a writer on the online project "Icons of England".
Aside from his publications in literature, he is also an artist, who has exhibited collections of his cartoons and hand-drawn postcards during Brighton Festival.
Since 2013, Chrisp has been writing From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay, a blog about James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
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