Bernard Cornwell
Biography
Bernard Cornwell, best known as the author of the Sharpe novels, is a prolific writer of historical fiction. He was born during World War…moreBorn
2/23/1944, London , EnglandBirth Name
Bernard WigginsGender
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Sharpe
Story
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S 6:
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Sharpe's Challenge (2)
4/24/06
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S 6:
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Sharpe's Challenge (1)
4/23/06
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S 5:
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Sharpe's Waterloo
5/21/97
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S 5:
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Sharpe's Justice
5/14/97
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S 5:
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Sharpe's Revenge
5/7/97
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S 6:
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Sharpe's Challenge (2)
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Masterpiece Theatre
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S 24:
Ep 28
Sharpe: Series II: Sharpe's Enemy
5/21/95
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S 24:
Ep 28
Sharpe: Series II: Sharpe's Enemy
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Sharpe
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His birth certificate originally read Bernard Cornwell, but his adoptive parents changed it to Wiggins - their name - when he was just a few weeks old. Cornwell, abused by his adoptive father, legally changed his name back to Cornwell after the father's death.
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Cornwell was the result of a war affair. His mother, Dorothy Cornwell, was forced by her father to give Bernard up for adoption as she was unmarried.
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Cornwell was awarded an OBE (Officer, Order of the British Empire) in 2006, as per the Queen's Birthday Honours List, "in recognition of his contributions to literature and his furtherence of British culture abroad."
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Bernard Cornwell: I've written twenty Sharpes now. You write the books you want to read yourself... so, I mean, the success for Sharpe, for me, is simply that I've been able to go on writing it.
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Bernard Cornwell: (about the character Sharpe) You can put Sharpe up against 10,000 French men, and he's not going to be that scared, but put him up against a pretty woman, and he's terrified.
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Cornwell: Sharpe is a villain; he's a rogue, but he's our rogue, he's our villain.
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