Read, Piers Paul

Piers Paul Read is best known for his book "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors", which documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was adapted into a film in 1993. He has won a number of prizes for his fiction, including the Hawthornden Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.