Andrew Davies (writer)
| Andrew Davies | |
|---|---|
| Born | Andrew Wynford Davies 20 September 1936 Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales, UK |
| Occupation | Writer (tv and print) |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Alma mater | University College, London |
| Period | ca. 1964–present (as writer) |
| Genre | Audio and screenplays, novels |
| Notable works |
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| Notable awards | Guardian Prize 1979 BAFTA Fellow 2002 |
| Spouse | Diana Huntley (1960–present) |
Andrew Wynford Davies (/ˈdeɪvɪs/; born 20 September 1936) is a Welsh writer of screenplays and novels, best known for House of Cards and A Very Peculiar Practice, and his adaptations of Vanity Fair, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and War & Peace. He was made a BAFTA Fellow in 2002.
Davies was born in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales. He attended Whitchurch Grammar School in Cardiff and then University College, London, where he received a BA in English in 1957. He took a teaching position at St. Clement Danes Grammar School in London, where he was on the teaching staff from 1958–61. He held a similar post at Woodberry Down Comprehensive School in Hackney, London from 1961–63. Following that, he was a lecturer in English at Coventry College of Education (which later merged with the University of Warwick to become the Faculty of Educational Studies and later the Warwick Institute of Education), and then at the University of Warwick.
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