He is also a Patron of the National Theatre of Ireland (the Abbey Theatre) in Dublin.
He has two children.Įdward Rutherfurd is a Life Member of the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral, the Salisbury Civic Society, and the Friends of Chawton House, which is located in Jane Austen's village and dedicated to the study of women writers. He currently divides his time between New England and Europe.
His books have been translated into twenty languages.Įdward has lived in London, New York, New Hampshire and Ireland. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: RUSSKA, a novel of Russia LONDON THE FOREST, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. Four years later, when the book was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write SARUM, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury.
Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. As vehicles for delivering the fruits of research, however, they are not only efficient, but might truly be called works of art.Francis Edward Wintle, best known under his pen name Edward Rutherfurd, was born in the cathedral city of Salisbury. They judder slowly along ill-made roads, like carts with square wheels, and the beauty of the scenery through which they pass does not entirely distract the passenger's mind from his aching bottom and tired eyes. Louis Post-Dispatch "As literature, Edward Rutherfurd's historical novels are not successful.
Reception "As entertaining as Sarum and Rutherfurd's other sweeping novel of British history, London." -Boston Globe "The Forest is Michener told with an English accent." -St. Story and characters combine to reveal and decorate the narrative in an important region in England not often used by writers. Set in the New Forest of southern England, this novel covers the lives of number of families tracing their history from the Saxons and Normans in 1099 through a " Jane Austen" style world of the early 19th century to present. Drawing on the success of Rutherfurd's other epic novels this went on to sell well and appeared in numbers of bestseller lists. The Forest is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, published in 2000.
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