A Season in the West

Piers Paul Read (born 1941) is a British novelist, historian, and biographer best known for his 1974 nonfiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which sold over five million copies and was adapted into a film. Piers Paul Read official site. Educated at Ampleforth College and Cambridge, where he studied history, he gained acclaim for novels like Monk Dawson (Hawthornden Prize and Somerset Maugham Award), The Professor's Daughter, and A Married Man, alongside historical works, biographies such as Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography, and reportage like The Train Robbers. Read more →