Terry Pratchett

Terence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry, following the convention he used in his book Pyramids where characters were given names such as Ptraci and Pteppic) is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. As of March 2005 he has sold approximately 40 million books worldwide.

Other books containing contributions by Pratchett

• The Wizards of Odd edited by Peter Haining (1997) includes a Discworld short story
• The Mammoth Book of Twentieth Century Ghost Stories edited by Peter Haining (1998) is the "sequel" to The Wizards of Odd and starts off with a Pratchett story featuring Death.
• Meditations on Middle-Earth (2002)
• The Leaky Establishment written by David Langford and recently re-issued for which Pratchett provided a foreword
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy edited by Mike Ashley (2001) contains a story featuring Cohen the Barbarian.
• Good Omens was co-written by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett