Hunter Davies

Non-Fiction Author

Birthday January 7, 1936

Birth Sign Capricorn

Birthplace Scotland

Age 88 years old

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About

Journalist, novelist, and biographer best known for his 1978 authorized biography of The Beatles. He also wrote a popular Tottenham Hotspur Football Club expose entitled The Glory Game.

Before Fame

He studied history and education at University College, Durham.

Trivia

His 1965 novel, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, was adapted into a film of the same name.

Family Life

He married fellow fiction writer and biographer Margaret Forster. The couple's daughter, Caitlin, also became a writer.

Associated With

He was the ghostwriter for an autobiography attributed to English footballer Wayne Rooney.