Person · Open Library
- Born
- 3 Jan 1946
- Works
- 1036
Top works
- Terrible Traitors
- Horrible Christmas
- On This Horrible Day in History
- Actually, I'm A Corpse
- History of Britain in Ten Enemies
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1946-01-03
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 385
- Total plays
- 12,675
Terry Deary (born 4 March 1946, Sunderland) is a children's author now living in Burnhope, County Durham, England. A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29. Most famously, he is one of the authors of the Horrible Histories series of books popular among children for their disgusting details, gory information and humorous pictures and among adults for getting children interested in history. Books in the series have been widely translated into
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research
· 2016 · cited 23,830x
- A safe operating space for humanity
· 2009 · cited 9,460x
- Estimating Nonresponse Bias in Mail Surveys
· 1977 · cited 9,344x
- The Occurrence of Sleep-Disordered Breathing among Middle-Aged Adults
· 1993 · cited 7,577x
- Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
· 2017 · cited 6,871x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.terry-deary.com
- Image
- Terry Deary at the Chiswick Book Festival (54002651610) (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1946-03-04
- Commons category
- Terry Deary
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Boyle's law
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University of Sunderland
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Nick Arnold
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Horrible Histories
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Categories
1946 birthsAlumni of the University of SunderlandBritish butchersBritish children's writersBritish humoristsChildren's non-fiction writersLibraryThing author same as WikidataLiving peoplePeople educated at Monkwearmouth SchoolWriters from Durham, EnglandWriters from SunderlandWriters of mythic fiction