Simon Beckett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Simon Beckett
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Apr 20, 1960(1960-04-20)
Age	64
Birthplace	Sheffield
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Simon Beckett Biography

Simon Beckett is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on April 20, 1960 in Sheffield, England, United Kingdom. Simon Beckett was born on 20 April 1960 in Sheffield, England, UK from a family of working class. After completing an MA of Arts degree in English, Beckett taught in Spain and performed in various band before turning freelance. He has published articles stories for The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer, amongst others. He wrote a number of novels and a novella, including Fine Lines in 1994, prior to releasing The first novel in The David Hunter series, David Hunter series, The Chemistry of Death in the year 2006. A crime novel featuring an anthropologist who is forensic, Dr. David Hunter, as the main character, The Chemistry of Death was nominated for the The Chemistry of Death was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger award. The sequel novels that feature David Hunter have been released in August 2007 (Written in Bone) and the beginning of January in (Whispers of the Dead), January 2009 (Whispers of the Dead) and in (The Calling of the Dead), (The Calling of the Grave) and in 2017 (The restless dead). It has been sold more than millions of copies across the world and is especially loved among Germany as well as Scandinavia.

On March 20, 2020 Trapeze Books announced that Beckett had agreed to a deal of two books with them for the release of the brand new Jonah Colley series which revolves around a police officer who is part of the Metropolitan Police in London. The first novel, entitled The Lost, will be published by July of 2021.

Beckett’s works are very well-known in Europe In 2010, the author had sold more than four million books outside in the United Kingdom and in the same year had surpassed J K Rowling and Ian McEwan in Continental Europe. In February of 2019 Beckett was awarded the Ripper Award (the European Prize from Criminal Literature). He was awarded the prize jointly with the novelist Arne Dahl, as each got the same number of public votes.

Simon Beckett Net Worth

Simon Beckett is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Simon Beckett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Simon Beckett (born 20 April 1960) is a British journalist and writer. His novels, including the series of novels about the forensic Anthropologist Dr. David Hunter, have sold 21 million copies around the world and had particular success throughout Germany as well as Scandinavia.

The characters and books were inspired by Beckett went to”Body Farm “Body Farm” (by its official title”Body Farm” is”The University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility established by Dr. Bill Bass, the pioneer of forensic anthropology Bill Bass) in 2002 conducting research in preparation for an article published by The Daily Telegraph. After having watched and took part in–“live” exercises that involved the creation of crime scenes with corpses that were actually decaying and witnessing the science used to determine the manner, time and place in which the death took place, Beckett was inspired to develop a character that is himself, in terms of himself, “vulnerable” and “very human” as well as being knowledgeable and authoritative in the field of forensicanthropology.

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Simon Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Simon Beckett celebrates birthday on April 20 of every year.