Ken Follett was the first child of Martin Follett, a tax inspector, and Lavinia Follett, who went on to have two more children, Hannah and James.
13 Facts About Ken Follett
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Ken Follett won admission in 1967 to University College London, where he studied philosophy and became involved in centre-left politics.
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Ken Follett married Mary, in 1968, and their son Emanuele was born in the same year.
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Ken Follett began writing fiction during evenings and weekends as a hobby.
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Ken Follett's novels, Fall of Giants, Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity, make up the Century Trilogy.
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Ken Follett had cameo roles as the valet in The Third Twin and later as a merchant in The Pillars of the Earth.
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Ken Follett is a member of various organisations that promote literacy and writing, and is actively involved in various organisations in his home town of Stevenage.
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Ken Follett is active in numerous Stevenage charities and was a governor of Roebuck Primary School for ten years, serving as the Chair of Governors for four of those years.
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Ken Follett became involved, during the late 1970s, in the activities of Britain's Labour Party.
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Ken Follett was elected as a Member of Parliament in 1997, representing Stevenage.
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Ken Follett was re-elected in both 2001 and 2005, but did not stand in the 2010 general election.
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Ken Follett himself remains a prominent Labour supporter and fundraiser as well as a prominent Blairite.
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Ken Follett is an amateur musician playing bass guitar for Damn Right I Got the Blues, and appears occasionally with the folk group Clog Iron playing a bass balalaika.