Tim Heald
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Life and writings
Heald was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England, and educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, and Balliol College, Oxford, gaining an MA in Modern History in 1965.
He has written over thirty published books, including official biographies of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (The Duke - a Portrait of Prince Philip (1991), Hodder & Stoughton), and HRH Princess Margaret (Princess Margaret - a Life Unravelled (2007), Orion Books).
Heald is also known for his mystery novels featuring Simon Bognor, special investigator, (10 titles), serialised by Thames TV. More recently as creator of Dr Tudor Cornwall in a new crime trilogy published by Robert Hale Ltd: Death and the Visiting Fellow (2004), Death and the D'Urbervilles (2005), A Death on the Ocean Wave (2007). He recently[when?] returned to the newly knighted Simon Bognor and has published two new novels Death in the Opening Chapter and Poison at the Pueblo with Creme de la Crime/ Severn House. He is working on more.[citation needed]
As a journalist, Tim Heald has written for Punch, The Spectator, The Sunday Times (Atticus column), Daily Express (feature writer 1967-72), The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and is a freelance travel writer. In the autumn of 2009 he started writing a "Royal Blog" for the Daily Telegraph web-site and was appointed Royal Correspondent by the editor of The Lady (a magazine), Rachel Johnson.
As a speaker, he was often a guest on Cunard cruise ships QE2 and Caronia. He was the author of Village Cricket (Little Brown, 2004), on which a Carlton TV series was based.
He worked as an academic in creative writing at the University of Tasmania and the University of South Australia between 1997 and 2001. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Tim Heald lived in Fowey, Cornwall, for fifteen years but recently moved to south Somerset where his mother was born and his father is buried.
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- ↑ Most of the bibliographical detail taken from a copy Beating Retreat - Hong Kong Under the Last Governor (published by Sinclair Stevenson in 1997)
- Vague or ambiguous time from March 2012
- Articles with unsourced statements from March 2012
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- English biographers
- English male journalists
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
- People educated at Sherborne School
- People from Dorchester, Dorset
- People from Fowey
- English male novelists
