George Pendle

George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist.

He was educated at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford.

After working at ''The Times'' as a writer and commissioning editor from 1997 to 2001, Pendle wrote his first book, published in 2005, ''Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons'', which became the basis for the historical drama television series ''Strange Angel'' that ran from 2018 through 2019 on CBS All Access.

Pendle's second book – ''The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President'' (2007) is a faux-biography of the unlucky thirteenth President of the United States of America, Millard Fillmore.

His third book, ''Death: A Life'' (2008), is a comedic autobiography of the personification of Death and how he deals with his purpose, life, and love.

A collection of his non-fiction writing was released under the title ''Happy Failure'' in 2014.

From 2001 forward, Pendle has written articles for the ''Financial Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Frieze'', ''Cabinet Magazine'', ''History Today'', ''Bidoun'', ''The Economist'', ''Esquire'', ''Slate'', and ''The Guardian'', among others. He is also Editor At Large for ''Air Mail'' and lives in New York City, where he has written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Provided by Wikipedia