Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr studied at University of Birmingham and Stewart's Melville College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is literary activity. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are noir novel, adventure fiction and crime. Works named in the authority record are Berlin Noir trilogy, The One From the Other and A Quiet Flame. Distinctions recorded are Prix Mystère de la Critique, Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, Palle Rosenkrantz Prize and RBA International Prize for Crime Writing.

• Name — Philip Kerr • Pen Name — P. B. Kerr • Birth Name — Philip Ballantyne Kerr • Born — 22 February 1956 • Birthplace — Edinburgh, Scotland • Died — 23 March 2018 • Place of death — London, England • Occupation — Author • Spouse — Jane Thynne (m. married 19??) • Children — 3 • Website — http: philipkerr.org/ • Illustration — Kerr at Pen America/Free Expression Literature, May 2014

Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an engineer and his mother worked as a secretary. He was educated at a grammar school in Northampton. He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1974 to 1980, gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy. Kerr worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi & Saatchi before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. In a 2012 interview, Kerr noted that he began his literary career at the age of twelve by writing pornographic stories and lending them to classmates for a fee.

A writer of both adult fiction and non-fiction, he is known for the Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther series of 14 historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War. He also wrote children's books under the name P. B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series. Kerr wrote for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, and the New Statesman. He was married to fellow novelist Jane Thynne; they lived in Wimbledon, London, and had three children. While fighting cancer, he completed the fourteenth Bernie Gunther novel, Metropolis, which was published after his death, in 2019.

Kerr died at age 62 from bladder cancer on 23 March 2018.

• "Berlin Noir" trilogy, republished 1993 by Penguin Books in one volume.. • March Violets. London: Viking, 1989., set in 1936 • The Pale Criminal. London: Viking, 1990., set in 1938 • A German Requiem. London: Viking, 1991., set in 1947–48 • Later "Bernie Gunther" novels • The One from the Other. New York: Putnam, 2006., set in 1949 (intro set in 1937) • A Quiet Flame. London: Quercus, 2008., set in 1950 and 1932–33 • If the Dead Rise Not. London: Quercus, 2009., set in 1934 and 1954 • Field Grey. (Field Gray in USA) London: Quercus, 2010., set in 1954 with flashbacks from 1941, 1931, 1940, & 1945/46. • Prague Fatale. London: Quercus, 2011, set in 1941 • A Man Without Breath. London: Quercus, 2013., set in 1943 • The Lady from Zagreb. London: Quercus, 2015., set in 1942–3, with framing scenes in 1956. • The Other Side of Silence. London: Quercus, 2016., set in 1956 • Prussian Blue. London: Quercus, 2017., set in 1939, with framing scenes in 1956 • Greeks Bearing Gifts. London: Quercus, 2018., set in 1957 • Metropolis. London: Quercus, 2019., set in 1928

• January Window. London: Head of Zeus, 23 October 2014. • Hand of God. London: Head of Zeus, 4 June 2015. B00PULYUSW • False Nine. London: Head of Zeus, 5 November 2015.

• A Philosophical Investigation. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. • Dead Meat. London: Chatto & Windus, 1993. • Gridiron (variant title, US: The Grid). London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. • Esau. London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. • A Five Year Plan. London: Hutchinson, 1997. • The Second Angel. London: Orion, 1998. • The Shot. London: Orion, 1999. • Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton. New York: Crown, 2002. • Hitler's Peace. New York: Marian Wood, 2005. • Prayer. London: Quercus, 2013. • The Winter Horses. New York: Knopf, 2014. • Research. London: Quercus, 2014. • 1984.4. Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 2021.

• The Penguin Book of Lies. 1991;1996 • The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy. 1992;1993

• The Akhenaten Adventure. London: Scholastic Press, 2004. • The Blue Djinn of Babylon. London: Scholastic Press, 2005. • The Cobra King of Kathmandu. London: Scholastic Press, 2006. • The Day of the Djinn Warriors. London: Scholastic Press, 2007. • The Eye of the Forest. London: Scholastic Press, 2009. • The Five Fakirs of Faizabad. London: Scholastic Press, 2010. • The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan. London: Scholastic Press, 2011.

• One Small Step. London: Simon & Schuster, 2008 (paper). • The Most Frightening Story Ever Told. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. • Friedrich der Große Detektiv (Frederick the Great Detective). Rowohlt Verlag, 2017.

Philip Kerr is recorded with the occupation science fiction writer. Recorded with the occupation poet lawyer. Classed in the genre adventure fiction. Classed in the genre crime literature. Classed in the genre noir novel. Recorded as writer, poet lawyer and screenwriter.