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Peter Mayle
Born(1939-06-14)14 June 1939
Brighton, England
Died18 January 2018(2018-01-18) (aged 78)
Aix-en-Provence, France
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Writer (advertising, travel, children's non-fiction)
Known forMemoirs
SpouseJennie (third wife)
Children3 sons from first marriage
2 daughters from second
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Peter Mayle (/ml/ "mail"; 14 June 1939 – 18 January 2018) was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence (1989).

  1. ^ "Peter Mayle". Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Entry updated: 02/21/2008. Fee. Accessed 2009-04-07 via Fairfax County Public Library. Document Number: H1000111948

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Provence

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biographical comedy drama miniseries based on the 1989 best-selling memoir by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs Abraham...

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star Russell Crowe for A Good Year, based on the best-selling book by Peter Mayle about an investment banker who finds a new life in Provence. The film...

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author Amulya Malladi, author Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet, playwright Peter Mayle, author Chan Mou, comic artist Rick Moranis, actor Ogden Nash, poet Bob...

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life of an English writer in Los Angeles. In A Year in Provence (1989), Peter Mayle and his English family adapt to life in Southern France while renovating...

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Carla Marangoni, 102, Italian gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (1928). Peter Mayle, 78, British author (A Year in Provence, A Good Year). Laurie Morgan...

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British Book Awards

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Sebastian Faulks 1994 – Roddy Doyle 1993 – Andrew Morton 1992 – Peter Mayle 1991 – Peter Ackroyd 1990 – Prince of Wales 2014 – We Are All Completely Beside...

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2018 in the United Kingdom

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Arthur Davidson, 89, British politician, complications from a fall. Peter Mayle, 78, British author (A Year in Provence). Laurie Morgan, 87, British...

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buried in the local cemetery. Another famous writer, British expatriate Peter Mayle lived in Vaugines, near Lourmarin, until his death in 2018. One of his...

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trois Joyaux de Gordes, Marc de Smedt [fr] (1988) A year in Provence, Peter Mayle (1993) Deliver Us From Evil, David Baldacci (2010) A photograph of Gordes...

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