1. Frederick McCarthy Forsyth was born on 25 August 1938 and is an English novelist and journalist.
22 Facts About Frederick Forsyth
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Frederick Forsyth is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan, The Cobra and The Kill List.
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Frederick Forsyth was educated at Tonbridge School, a private boarding and day school in the market town of Tonbridge in Kent.
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Frederick Forsyth had never been to Africa until reporting on the Nigerian Civil War between Biafra and Nigeria as a BBC correspondent.
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Frederick Forsyth was there for the first six months of 1967, but few expected the war to last very long considering the poor weaponry and preparation of the Biafrans when compared to the British-armed Nigerians.
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Frederick Forsyth thus returned to Biafra as a freelance reporter, writing his first book, The Biafra Story, in 1969.
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Frederick Forsyth is an occasional radio broadcaster on political issues and has written for newspapers throughout his career, including a weekly page in the Daily Express.
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Many were set in the Republic of Ireland where Frederick Forsyth was living at the time.
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In 1994, Frederick Forsyth published The Fist of God, a novel which concerns the first Gulf War, Project Babylon and competition between intelligence agencies.
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In 1999, Frederick Forsyth published The Phantom of Manhattan, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera.
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In January 2018, it was announced that Frederick Forsyth would publish his eighteenth novel, a thriller about computer hackers, inspired by the Lauri Love and Gary McKinnon stories.
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On 16 February 2012 the Crime Writers' Association announced that Frederick Forsyth had won its Cartier Diamond Dagger award in recognition of his body of work.
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Frederick Forsyth was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 New Year Honours list for services to literature.
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On 8 February 2007, Frederick Forsyth appeared on BBC's political panel show Question Time; on it, he expressed scepticism on the subject of anthropogenic climate change.
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On 17 June 2008, Frederick Forsyth was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live Midday News in relation to the restoration of the Military Covenant.
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Frederick Forsyth has been Patron of The People's Book Prize since 2010.
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Frederick Forsyth is Patron of Better Off Out, an organisation calling for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, and he supports Brexit.
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Frederick Forsyth is a patron of the Young Britons' Foundation.
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In 2016, Frederick Forsyth featured as a character in Reg, a one-off BBC real-life drama about Reg Keys' campaign.
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Frederick Forsyth has been married twice, first to former model Carole Cunningham between 1973 and 1988, with whom he had two sons Stuart and Shane, and then to Sandy Molloy, since 1994.
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Frederick Forsyth previously resided in a manor house in Hertfordshire with his family before moving to Buckinghamshire in 2010.
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Frederick Forsyth wrote lyrics to a lament titled "Fallen Soldier", with music by Gareth Ellis Williams, which was released as a single by Royal Opera House soprano Melissa Alder in 2016.