David Peace was born on 1967 and is an English writer.
13 Facts About David Peace
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Best known for his UK-set novels Red Riding Quartet, GB84, The Damned Utd, and Red or Dead, Peace was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in their 2003 list.
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David Peace was born in Dewsbury and grew up in Ossett, West Yorkshire.
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David Peace was educated at Batley Grammar School, Wakefield College and Manchester Polytechnic, which he left in 1991 to go to Istanbul to teach English.
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David Peace cites his father's book collection, and reading the NME between 1979 and 1985, as formative influences.
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David Peace moved to Tokyo in 1994 and returned to the UK in 2009.
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David Peace went back to Tokyo in 2011, because he found it hard to write in Britain.
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David Peace has lectured in the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies at the University of Tokyo since his return to Tokyo in 2011.
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David Peace followed GB84 with another fact-based fictional piece, The Damned Utd, which is based on Brian Clough's fateful 44-day spell in 1974 as manager of Leeds United Football Club.
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David Peace has described it as an "occult history of Leeds United".
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David Peace is a supporter of Huddersfield Town, a club who are a local rival of Leeds United, and the team that Leeds United played in Clough's first and last games in charge of the club.
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David Peace's plans include UKDK, about the changing face of UK politics, set around the fall of Harold Wilson and rise of Margaret Thatcher, and titles possibly including The Yorkshire Rippers and Nineteen Forty Seven.
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David Peace has begun preparing a novel about Geoffrey Boycott and his relationship with Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England.