Jeffrey Archer

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Jeffrey Howard Archer (born 15 April 1940) is an English novelist, former diplomat, and peer of the realm. Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–1974) but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him nearly bankrupt, before becoming an author.

Archer's books have sold around 330 million copies worldwide, after a newspaper accused him of paying money to a prostitute.

He won a court case in 1987 and was awarded substantial compensation as a result.

He was born as a life peer in 1992 and then became the first elected Mayor of London by a Conservative.

After it emerged that he had lied in his 1987 libel lawsuit, he had to resign his candidacy in 1999.

He was jailed (2001–03) for perjury and perverting the path of justice, putting an end to his campaign as a politician.

Early life and education

Jeffrey Howard Archer was born in the City of London Maternity Hospital in Holloway, London, on April 15, 1940. He was two weeks old when his family moved to Somerset, eventually settling in Weston-super-Mare, where Archer spent the majority of his childhood. When Jeffrey Archer was born, his father, William (died 1956), was 64 years old. Archer began his career by giving conflicting accounts of his father's ostensible, but non-existent military career. In fact, William Archer was a bigamist, con man, and conman who impersonated another William Archer, a former war medal holder. He served as both a chewing gum salesman in New York and a mortgage broker in London at various times. He was indicted at the Old Bailey with a string of fraud charges in his previous work. On being released on bail, William Grimwood absconded to the United States. Rosemary Turner, William Archer's half-sister in the United States, died on Sunday. Brien McMahon, a 40-year-old lawyer who went on to become Connecticut's Democratic senator (1945–1952) and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1952, was married in 1940. Rosemary married, in 1953, the Belgian ambassador to Washington, Baron Silvercruys, after Brien McMahon's death that year. Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady, was the guest-of-honor at their wedding. As a youth Archer, he aspiration to be captain of Bristol Rovers Football Club. He is also a fan of the team.

Archer was granted a scholarship to Wellington School in Somerset in 1951, not Wellington College in Berkshire, where he later claimed after passing the 11-plus. Lola's mother, Lola, was working as a writer on Weston's local newspaper, the Weston Mercury. She wrote a weekly column named "Over the Teacups" and often wrote about Jeffrey, coining the phrase "tote." Despite the fact that Archer adored the local community, it was also responsible for him suffering bullying while at Wellington School.

Archer Alexander Burke left school with an O-level in English literature, art, and history. He then spent a few years in various occupations, including army service and a brief period with the Metropolitan Police. He began teaching physical education at Vicar's Hill, a preparatory school in Hampshire, and then at Dover College in Kent.

In 1963, Archer was invited to study for a Diploma of Education by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. The course was based in the department, and Archer became a member of Brasenose College. Archer has been accused of falsenose's academic credentials to Brasenose, despite the apparent citation of an American institution that was actually a bodybuilding club, for example, in applying for admission to the program. In addition, it has been suspected that three non-existent A-level passes and a U.S. university degree have been misrepresented. Although the diploma program only lasted a year, Archer spent a total of three years at Oxford. Archer was a natural performer in athletics, participated in sprinting and hurdling, and became president of Oxford University Athletic Club. Television coverage of him getting off to a rocky start in a 1964 sprint race has survived, but he was not disqualified. He earned a blue in athletics and moved on to play for England, as well as for Great Britain.

In a fundraising effort, the Archer raised funds for Oxfam, getting the blessing of The Beatles. The band accepted his invitation to visit the Principal's lodge at Brasenose College, where they were photographed with Archer and dons of the college, although they did not attend the college. Sheridan Morley, then a Merton undergraduate, was on hand and remembered the moment:

Personal life

Since being married to Mary Weeden since July 1966, Archer has been married. They met at Oxford University, where Weeden was studying chemistry at St Anne's College. She then moved to specialize in solar power.

William Archer (born 1972), a theatrical actor, and James Archer (born 1974), a financial consultant and businessman, have two children.

The Archers acquired the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, which was home to the poet Rupert Brooke in 1979. Each summer, they hold a lavish garden party in the grounds to commemorate their marriage anniversary. Archer was back in a good financial position and started to hold shepherd's pie and Krug parties for influential people in his London penthouse, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament following the near-bankruptcy of the Aquablast crisis in the early 1980s.

Archer said he had no interest in returning to front-line politics and would focus on writing instead on Sunday Marr's Sunday AM show.

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Early career

Archer began as a charity fundraiser after leaving Oxford, first for the National Birthday Trust, a medical charity that promoted safe childbirth, before joining the United Nations Association (UNA) as the chief fundraiser. When Archer's spending allegations were not verified while he worked at the UNA, the then chairman of the UNA, Humphry Berkeley, said there were several discrepancies in Archer's income estimates.

Archer began working in politics, serving as a Conservative councillor on the Greater London Council (1967–1970).

In 1969, Archer founded Arrow Enterprises, a privately funded fundraising and public relations firm. In Mayfair, he opened the Archer Gallery in the same year as the previous one. The gallery concentrated on modern art, with works by sculptor and painter Leon Underwood among the works on view. The gallery eventually lost money, but Archer later sold it two years later.

Writing career

In the fall of 1974, Archer wrote Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, as a way to prevent bankruptcy. Deborah Owen, a literary agent, first published the book in the United States and then in Britain in the fall of 1976. In the early 1980s, a radio adaptation of the novel appeared on BBC Radio 4, and in 1990, a BBC Television version of the story was broadcast.

Kane and Abel (1979) was his best-selling book, ranked number one on The New York Times bestsellers list, with Kane and Abel (1979) his highest-selling work. The Olympic fencing gold medalist edited it as the majority of his early work. In 1985, CBS turned it into a television mini-series starring Peter Strauss and Sam Neill. Granada TV screened a 10-part version of another Archer bestseller, First Among Equals, which told the tale of four men and their attempts to become prime minister. The character of Andrew Fraser was stripped from the book's U.S. version, reducing the number of protagonists to three.

Archer has also written three stage plays, as well as novels and short stories. Beyond Reasonable Doubt, the first, opened in 1987 and spent more than a year at the Queen's Theatre in London's West End. Exclusive, Archer's next performance, opened in London in September 1989. Critics were not keen on it, and it was cancelled after a few weeks. The Accused was his last play at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, on September 26, 2000, before moving to the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in the West End in December.

Author Kathleen Burnett accused Archer of plagiarising a story she had written and including it in his short-story collection, A Twist in the Tale. The archer denied plagiarizing the tale, saying he was simply inspired by the tale.

Although Archer's books are commercially successful, commentators have generally been unfavourable about his writing. Hugo Barnacle, a journalist who contributed to The Independent on The Fourth Estate (1996), thought the book, although claiming that "the editors don't appear to have done any work," was "not particularly surprising."

The archer has stated that he spends considerable time on researching and re-writing each book. He goes to write the first draft while writing anything from two hours to a time, and then drafts anything up to 17 drafts in total. "Writer's Block" is Archer's first draft of each new book at his villa in Majorca, dating back to 2010.

Archer released the first of seven books in the Clifton Chronicles series in 2011, which chronicle Harry Clifton's life from his birth in 1920 to his death in 1993. Only Time Will Tell, the first book in the series, tells the tale of Harry from 1920 to 1940 and was published in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2011. This Was a Man, the seventh and final book in the series, was published on November 3rd, 2016.

The Short, the Long and Tall, an illustrated collection of Archer's short stories, was released in November 2020 with watercolour illustrations by artist Paul Cox.

Over My Dead Body was published in October 2021 and is the fourth book in a series starring detective William Warwick.

Curtis Brown, Archer's former literary agents, had been sued for £500,000 in unpaid royalties as a result of January 2020.

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