Bio

(4 FEBRUARY 1942 - 30 OCTOBER 2005)

born London, England

Education: St. David's Marist College, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955-1958

University of the Witwatersrand, 1964-1966; BA, 1967

South Africa Army (intermittently), 1961-1966

Career: Reporter, Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1959-1967

News Editor, Post Newspapers, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1967-1968

Scriptwriter and Sub-Editor, ITV News, London, 1967-1973

Chief Radio News Sub-ed., RTE (Raidió Teilifís Éireann), --2005

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Aside from writing novels, he also wrote an RTE Television Play The Babysitters, a psychological thriller with a literary tax refugee as a central character, in 1980, first broadcast on RTE 1 as part of the "Thursday Play Date" series on 28 February 1980

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From ATA of Sphere edition of In Connection with Kilshaw:

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"Peter Driscoll was born in London in 1942 and after the war went to South Africa with his parents. At seventeen he joined the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and has been intermittently in journalism ever since -- the intermissions having included periods as a labourer, ship's stoker, national serviceman, part-time student and full-time writer. He was based in London from 1968 until 1973, when he embarked on further travels to Greece, Africa and the Far East."

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