Peter Mayle (1939–2018)
Author of A Year in Provence
About the Author
Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England on June 14, 1939. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter and rose to the executive ranks, but left advertising in 1975 to write educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young adults. His educational books including show more Where Did I Come From? and What's Happening to Me? His travel memoir, A Year in Provence, received the British Book Awards' Best Travel Book of the Year in 1990 and was adapted into a television mini-series. His other nonfiction books included Toujours Provence, Encore Provence, Provence A-Z, and French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew. His fiction books included The Marseille Caper, The Corsican Caper, and A Good Year, which was adapted into a 2006 film of the same name starring Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard. Mayle died on January 18, 2018 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Peter Mayle
"Where Did I Come From?": The Facts of Life Without Any Nonsense and With Illustrations (1973) 486 copies
Peter Mayle's Provence [Abridged Audiobook of A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence] (1993) 11 copies
"Will I like it?": Your first sexual experience, what to expect, what to avoid, and how both of you can get the most… (1977) 8 copies
Memórias de um cão 1 copy
BANA NELER OLUYOR 1 copy
ועוד פעם פרובאנס 1 copy
Peter Mayle Giftset: "A Year in Provence", "Toujours Provence", "Encore Provence" (Audio Assembly S.) (2001) 1 copy
2004 1 copy
Què em passa? 1 copy
Alt har interesse — Author — 1 copy
Der er ingen ende på Provence — Author — 1 copy
Франция. Прованс навсегда 1 copy
Associated Works
There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Contributor — 210 copies
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributor — 72 copies
Det Bästas Bokval (1998) vol 197 : Donator okänd; Oanade möjligheter; Minnets labyrinter; De urgamla bergen log — Author — 3 copies
Válogatott könyvek 55. Lee Child - A nehezebb út; Nora Roberts - Bukott angyal; Peter Mayle - Bor, mámor, Provence;… (2007) 3 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Keys to the Street • Rose • White Viper • Anything Considered 3 copies
Het Beste Boek 190: Maanlicht staat je goed / Een halfjaar miljonair / Virtueel bedrog / Fly Away Home (1998) 2 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Hab Acht auf meine Schritte. Ein guter Jahrgang. Gletschergrab (2008) 2 copies
Livros Condensados: A Regra Dos Dois Minutos | El Girasol | Um Bom Ano | Nas Nuvens (2006) — Author — 2 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher: Das schwarze Manifest / Tingulla / Trüffelträume / Der Karibujäger (1998) — Author — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Mayle, Peter
- Birthdate
- 1939-06-14
- Date of death
- 2018-01-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
- Place of death
- Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
- Places of residence
- Lourmarin, Provence, France
Barbados
The Hamptons, New York, USA
Vaugines, Provence, France
London, England, UK
Ménerbes, Vaucluse, France - Education
- Brighton College
- Occupations
- advertising copywriter
non-fiction author
memoirist
novelist
travel writer
educational writer - Organizations
- Papert Koenig, Londres, New York (Publicitaire, Directeur créatif, | 19 74)
Ogilvy and Mather, New York (Publicitaire, 19 61)
Shell Oil, Londres (Publiciatire, 1957) - Awards and honors
- Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2002)
- Short biography
- Peter Mayle was born in Brighton, England. Following World War II, the family moved to Barbados, where his father served as an employee of the British Colonial Office. Mayle returned to England after leaving school at age 16. His first job in 1957 was as a trainee at Shell Oil's London office. He was more interested in advertising than oil, however, and by 1961 had became a copywriter at Shell's ad agency, Ogilvy & Mather, in New York City. Subsequently, he was hired by Papert Koenig Lois and returned to London to head up the creative team there. When the company had financial troubles in the mid-1960s, Mayle and a colleague bought the London operation. They developed the business and after five years, it was bought by BBDO. He then commuted between the USA and the UK as creative director. By 1974, Mayle had tired of advertising and transatlantic commuting, and quit to write full-time. He started off by writing educational books, including a series on sex education for children and young people. He also wrote, with illustrator Gray Jolliffe, a series of humorous books about the character Wicked Willie. His most significant career move probably was the decision to relocate to Ménerbes, a village in the Luberon region of southern France, in the late 1980s. There his plans to write a novel were overtaken by the events of life as an expatriate in his new environment. They provided the material for his 1989 book A Year in Provence, an international bestseller that became a media phenomenon. Many more books followed, which were translated in more than 20 languages. Mayle also wrote articles for magazines and newspapers. A Year in Provence was adapted into a highly popular British television series in 1993. Mayle had to move to Amagansett on Long Island, New York, to get away from the thousands of fans and sightseers who showed up at his home in Provence. He later returned to France and a home in Vaugines, also in the Luberon. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor in 2002, for "coopération et francophonie."
- Disambiguation notice
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