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Bernard Cornwell is an English-American author of historical novels.
* He was born in London in 1944.
* He studied history at University College London.
* He worked as a teacher and a journalist before becoming a full-time writer.
* He is best known for his novels about the Napoleonic Wars and the Anglo-Saxon period.
* His books have been translated into 26 languages and have sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
* He has won numerous awards, including the Edgar Award and the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Award.
* He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, with his wife, Judy.
* He is currently working on a new novel about the American Civil War.

But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.

Bernard Cornwell

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