30 Facts About Paul Cornell

Paul Douglas Cornell was born on 18 July 1967 and is a British writer.

Paul Cornell has worked in television drama and Doctor Who fiction, being the creator of one of the Doctor's spin-off companions, Bernice Summerfield.

Paul Cornell is one of only two people to be nominated for Hugo Awards in prose, comics and TV.

Paul Cornell's professional writing career began in 1990 when he was a winner in a young writers' competition and his entry, Kingdom Come, was produced and screened on BBC Two.

Timewyrm: Revelation was a reworking of a serialised fan fiction piece Paul Cornell had penned previously for the fanzine Queen Bat.

Paul Cornell then began working for Granada Television, where he wrote for the children's medical drama Children's Ward and created his own children's series Wavelength for Yorkshire Television, which ran for two series.

Paul Cornell made the crossover to working in adult television full-time in 1996, when he was one of the main contributors to Granada's supernatural soap opera Springhill, which ran for two years on Sky One and later on Channel 4.

Paul Cornell's episode, entitled Masturbation, starred Ioan Gruffudd as Jack.

Paul Cornell was due to be one of the writers on Red Production Company's planned Queer as Folk spin-off series Misfits, but the series was never made, being cancelled by Channel 4.

Paul Cornell contributed to the 1950s-set Sunday evening prime time drama series Born and Bred and was one of the writers of the 2005 series revival of Doctor Who, writing the episode "Father's Day".

Paul Cornell later wrote a two-part story for Doctor Who's 2007 series, based on his 1995 Virgin New Adventures novel Human Nature.

In February 2006, Paul Cornell announced in a post on his weblog that he would be writing an episode for the BBC's Robin Hood, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for the same Saturday evening family slot as Doctor Who.

Paul Cornell later announced that he was writing a second Robin Hood episode for later in the first series.

Paul Cornell wrote an episode for the second season of another Saturday evening family adventure programme, the ITV science-fiction series Primeval, transmitted in February 2008.

Paul Cornell wrote the one-off pilot Pulse, which was shown on BBC Three in early June 2010.

Paul Cornell has written two mainstream science-fiction novels, Something More and British Summertime for Gollancz, and various novels, short stories and audio dramas based around a character he created for the New Adventures, Professor Bernice Summerfield, and whom he later licensed to Big Finish Productions.

Paul Cornell has co-authored several non-fiction books on television, including The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, X-treme Possibilities, and The Discontinuity Guide.

Paul Cornell has written Wisdom, a 6-issue limited series for Marvel Comics' MAX imprint, featuring the character Peter Wisdom, with art by Trevor Hairsine and Manuel Garcia.

Paul Cornell has written Young Avengers Presents No 4 and a Fantastic Four mini-series comic, True Story, which started in July 2008, which featured the team encountering characters from the pages of literary classics.

Paul Cornell has written the Young Avengers limited series that ties into Dark Reign and Black Widow: Deadly Origin a mini-series that ties into the character's appearance in Iron Man 2.

Paul Cornell became the next Action Comics writer after War of the Supermen.

Paul Cornell signed with DC Comics exclusively in 2010 as part of writing for Action Comics.

Paul Cornell's 16-issue run on the series included number 900.

In September 2011, as part of DC's The New 52 relaunch, Paul Cornell became the writer for the DC Comics titles Demon Knights and Stormwatch.

Paul Cornell is part of the regular panel of the podcast SF Squeecast, which won the 2012 and 2013 Hugo Award for best fancast.

In January 2016, Paul Cornell announced his return to television drama work with his first script for US television, contributing an episode to the CBS Sherlock Holmes series Elementary.

Paul Cornell then goes on to state that he is an Anglican but is very "Low Church, almost a Calvinist" and this is partly because he doesn't enjoy hymns.

Paul Cornell is married to Caroline Symcox, currently the Vicar of St Mary's Church, Fairford, who has written Doctor Who-based audio plays for Big Finish Productions on her own and with Paul Cornell.

In 2021 Paul Cornell stated that he and Symcox had a son, then ten years old.

Paul Cornell has written novels, non-fiction, audio plays and comic scripts.