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Jack Higgins, whose real name was Henry Patterson, was born on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and held British citizenship. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Harry Patterson and James Graham. He worked as a novelist, writer, screenwriter and author, and served in the Royal Horse Guards. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science and held a doctorate.
His career began in 1959, and he was employed by Leeds Beckett University. He worked in Belfast, Ulster and Jersey, and lived in Leeds, Jersey and Belfast. He had four children. Higgins wrote 164 works, including the World War 2 Thriller Collection, First Strike, Death Run, Sharp Shot and Sure Fire. He died on 9 April 2022 in Jersey.
Synthesized by Vinony from 29 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, TMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- July 27, 1929
- Died
- April 9, 2022
- Works
- 164
Top works
- World War 2 Thriller Collection
- First strike
- Death Run
- Sharp shot
- Sure Fire
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, UK
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1929
- Active to
- 2022
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 711
- Total plays
- 8,749
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jack+Higgins">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,664x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,092x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 32,049x
- The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2011 · cited 28,857x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,547x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Henry Patterson , ( 1929-07-27 ) 27 July 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne , England
- Died
- 9 April 2022 (2022-04-09) (aged 92), Jersey , Channel Islands
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Alma mater
- London School of Economics
- Period
- 1959–2017
- Genre
- Thriller , espionage , mystery
- Notable works
- The Eagle Has Landed A Prayer for the Dying The Eagle Has Flown Thunder Point Angel of Death Flight of Eagles Day of Reckoning
- Spouses
- Amy Hewitt ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1958 – 1984 ) Denise Palmer ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1985 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Graham
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Place of death
- Jersey
- Occupation
- school teacher
- Employer
- Leeds Beckett University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Eagle Has Landed
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Field of work
- spy fiction
- Military branch
- Royal Horse Guards
- Number of children
- 4
- Work location
- Jersey
- Residence
- Jersey
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1929-01-01
- pseudonym
- James Graham
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-01-01
- name in native language
- Henry Patterson
- end of work period
- 2022-00-00
- birth name
- Henry Patterson
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Henry Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title.
Some of his other notable books are A Prayer for the Dying (1973), The Eagle Has Flown (1991), Thunder Point (1993), Angel of Death (1995), Flight of Eagles (1998), and Day of Reckoning (2000). His 85 novels in total have sold more than 250 million copies and have been translated into 55 languages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jack Higgins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.