George Pendle | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 48–49) |
| Occupation | Author and journalist |
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford |
George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist.
He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford.
After working at The Times as a writer and commissioning editor from 1997 to 2001, [1] Pendle wrote his first book, published in 2005, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons , which became the basis for the historical drama television series Strange Angel that ran from 2018 through 2019 on CBS All Access. [2]
Pendle's second book – The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore.
His third book, Death: A Life (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love.
A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title Happy Failure in 2014.
From 2001 forward, Pendle has written articles for the Financial Times , the Los Angeles Times , Frieze , Cabinet Magazine , History Today , [3] Bidoun , The Economist , Esquire , Slate , and The Guardian , among others. [4] [1] He is also Editor At Large for Air Mail and lives in New York City, where he has written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. [4] [5]
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