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Colin Smythe Ltd published the book in 1971, with illustrations by Pratchett. Pratchett mentioned he had written a manuscript, The Carpet People. In 1968, Pratchett interviewed Peter Bander van Duren, co-director of a small publishing company, Colin Smythe Ltd. While on day release from his apprenticeship, Pratchett finished his A-Level in English and took the National Council for the Training of Journalists proficiency course. Two of the stories contain characters found in his novel The Carpet People (1971). In this position he wrote, among other things, over 80 stories for the Children's Circle section under the name Uncle Jim.

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His initial career choice was journalism and he left school at 17, in 1965, to start an apprenticeship with Arthur Church, the editor of the Bucks Free Press. Pratchett earned five O-levels and started A-level courses in Art, English and History. 'The Hades Business', which was published in the school magazine when he was 13, was published commercially when he was 15. It is the tale of a man named Crucible who finds the Devil in his flat in a cloud of sulphurous smoke. Pratchett published his first short story, 'Business Rivals', in the High Wycombe Technical School magazine in 1962. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, and 'every book you really ought to read', which he later regarded as 'getting an education'. His early reading included the works of H. He developed an interest in science fiction and attended science fiction conventions from about 1963вЂ“1964, but stopped a few years later when he got his first job as a trainee journalist at the local paper.

He collected Brooke Bond tea cards about space, owned a telescope and wanted to be an astronomer, but lacked the necessary mathematical skills. Pratchett's early interests included astronomy. Pratchett described himself as a 'non-descript' student and, in his Who's Who entry, credited his education to the Beaconsfield Public Library.

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He passed his eleven plus exam in 1959, earning a place at High Wycombe Technical High School, where he was a key member of the debating society and wrote stories for the school magazine. Pratchett's family moved to Bridgwater, Somerset, briefly in 1957. He was bothered by the head teacher, who, he said, thought 'he could tell how successful you were going to be in later life by how well you could read or write at the age of six'. Pratchett attended Holtspur School, where he was bullied for his speech impediments. His maternal grandparents came from Ireland. Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948 in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, England, the only child of David (1921вЂ“2006), a mechanic, and Eileen Pratchett (1922вЂ“2010), a secretary, of Hay-on-Wye.

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Pratchett died on 12 March 2015, aged 66. He later made a substantial public donation to the Alzheimer's Research Trust, filmed a television programme chronicling his experiences with the condition for the BBC, and became a patron for Alzheimer's Research UK. In December 2007, Pratchett announced that he had been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2010. In 2001 he won the annual Carnegie Medal for The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, the first Discworld book marketed for children. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours. Pratchett, with more than 85В million books sold worldwide in 37В languages, was the UK's best-selling author of the 1990s. The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.

The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971.

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He is best known for his Discworld series of 41 novels. Sir Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 вЂ“ 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.

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