Charles Whiting 1926-2007
Charles sadly passed away in his sleep on 24th July 2007.
Born in 1926, CHARLES WHITING joined the army as a volunteer in 1943 and served with the 52nd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment in Belgium, Holland and Germany.
After the war he studied at the University of Leeds and later at London, Kiel, Cologne and Saarbrüchen. In 1958 he became a university teacher, first in the USA and then in England and Germany where he was also German correspondent for the Times. He gave up full-time teaching in 1973 to devote himself to writing. His first novel Frat Wagon was published by Jonathan Cape while he was at university. Since then he has had over three hundred books published under his pseudonyms Leo Kessler, Duncan Harding, John Kerrigan and has sold over five million books in this country alone. His books have also been translated into most languages including Japanese.
He is the country’s most prolific fiction and non-fiction author on military subjects, he belongs to several learned societies and has won the Sir George Dowty Prize for Literature at the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
He now lives in York where he has devoted himself to writing about his native country. His recent Fire over York and Yorkshire Fights Back (GH Smith 2005) have been hugely popular. He is married to Gill who now acts as his PA and he has one son.
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