Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Archer was born in 1940 and studied at the University of Oxford. He has served as a Member of Parliament and as Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He wrote his first novel, "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less," in 1974 after leaving his parliamentary seat. This was followed by the great success of "Kane and Abel," which established him internationally. To date, he has written a total of eleven novels, four collections of short stories, and three plays, which have been translated into twenty-seven languages, with total sales exceeding 120 million copies in 61 countries worldwide. In 1992, he became a member of the House of Lords. The author lives in London and Cambridge. He is married and has two children.