Patrick O'Brien is an English writer. Patrick comes from a family originating from Karl Gottfried Russ, who immigrated to England in the sixties of the XIX century.
O'Brien is one of the greatest contemporary writers to have written the iconic twenty-something epic about Captain Jack Aubrey as well as Dr. Stephen Mathewryn's Master of the Seas. He's a biographer. Picasso and Joseph Banks. Patrick managed to translate a huge number of works from French to English. Among them were memoirs and novels.
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Patrick O'Brien is an English writer.
Patrick comes from a family originating from Karl Gottfried Russ, who immigrated to England in the sixties of the XIX century.
O'Brien is one of the greatest contemporary writers to have written the iconic twenty-something epic about Captain Jack Aubrey as well as Dr. Stephen Mathewryn's Master of the Seas. He's a biographer.
Simon De Beauvoux , as well as the first volume of the biography of De Gaulle.
In 1995, O'Brien was awarded the Haywood Hill Prize for his contributions to world literature. In the same year he was awarded the Order of the British Empire. In 1997, Patrick was awarded the title of Honorary Doctor of Literature at Trinity College Dublin.
Patrick has spent his entire life trying to protect his privacy by refusing to reveal details about it and his past. He preferred not to publish biographical information about himself and to provide only a minimum of personal data when it was not otherwise.
For years, journalists and columnists believed he was Irish, and O'Brien took no steps to correct that inaccuracy. In 1998, a BBC documentary filmed in the wake of a journalistic investigation published by the Daily Telegraph published the facts of his origin, his real name and the details of his first marriage, followed by many critical comments in the media.
The writer died in early 2000. Shortly before his death, he began to write a book following the twentieth volume, entitled “Blue on Bizani”. The last unfinished journey of Stephen Matthewrin and Jack Aubrey, whose friendship has become the most remarkable in modern literature, and remains a friendship forever.