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John Peter Berger was born in London, England on November 5, 1926. After serving in the British Army from 1944 to 1946, he enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art. He began his career as a painter and exhibited work at a number of London galleries in the late 1940s. He then worked as an art critic for The New Statesman for a decade. He wrote fiction and nonfiction including several volumes of art criticism. His novels include A Painter of Our Time, From A to X, and G., which won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize in 1972. His other works include an essay collection entitled Permanent Red, Into Their Labors, and a book and television series entitled Ways of Seeing. In the 1970s, he collaborated with the director Alain Tanner on three films. He wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre, The Middle of the World, and Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000. He died on January 1, 2017 at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Ways of Seeing… (more)
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G. 871 copies, 16 reviews
About Looking 850 copies, 5 reviews
To the Wedding 519 copies, 10 reviews
Pig Earth 405 copies, 9 reviews
Once in Europa 308 copies, 3 reviews
Another Way of Telling 308 copies, 3 reviews
The Shape of a Pocket 300 copies, 4 reviews
From A to X: A Story in Letters 263 copies, 13 reviews
The Sense of Sight 252 copies, 1 review
Selected Essays of John Berger 237 copies, 1 review
Lilac and Flag 185 copies
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Bento's Sketchbook 180 copies, 7 reviews
A Seventh Man 146 copies, 3 reviews
King: A Street Story 142 copies, 2 reviews
Why Look at Animals? 141 copies, 3 reviews
Keeping a Rendezvous 111 copies, 1 review
Confabulations 106 copies, 4 reviews
Corker's Freedom 97 copies, 1 review
Foot of Clive 40 copies
Railtracks (Author) 36 copies, 1 review
Cataract 33 copies
Smoke 19 copies
The White Bird: Writings 16 copies, 1 review
About Time 12 copies
Collected poems 10 copies
Meanwhile 9 copies, 1 review
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Ein Geschenk für Rosa 2 copies, 1 review
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Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (Translator, some editions) 518 copies, 6 reviews
The Algebra of Infinite Justice (Preface, some editions) 331 copies, 4 reviews
The official Fahrenheit 9/11 reader (Foreword) 322 copies, 2 reviews
Soul: And Other Stories (Afterword, some editions) 274 copies, 4 reviews
The Best American Essays 2009 (Contributor) 226 copies, 2 reviews
Granta 25: The Murderee (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review
Granta 21: The Story-Teller (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review
Granta 35: An Unbearable Peace (Contributor) 136 copies, 1 review
I Could Read the Sky (Preface, some editions) 99 copies, 1 review
Granta 15: The Fall of Saigon (Contributor) 96 copies, 1 review
Jean Renoir (Contributor) 91 copies
Granta 18: The Snap Revolution (Contributor) 90 copies, 1 review
Between The Eyes: Essays On Photography And Politics (Introduction, some editions) 88 copies, 1 review
Granta 13: After the Revolution (Contributor) 54 copies
The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self (Contributor) 52 copies, 1 review

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