Edward platt obituary
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I have written three books: Leadville: A Biography of the A40, (link)which won The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, The City of Abraham: A Journey through Hebron (link), and The Great Flood: Travels Through A Sodden Landscape, (link) which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week.
I am currently writing a book about Britain in the year 2060, provisionally called 2060: A Journey in Search of a Map.
I have been a journalist for thirty-odd years, during which time I have written for many different newspapers and magazines, including The New Statesman, The Guardian and The TLS. There is a selection of articles here (link).
In 2012, I wrote a series of articles for The New Statesman called English Journeys, in which I went back to parts of England where I grew up (Hull, Essex, Newcastle, Liverpool and London) They are posted here. I am keeping an urban storm diary, posted here, which I will update from time to time.
Pre-pandemic, I wrote an essay about the John Boorman film, Leo the Last, which wa
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Edward Platt (author)
English writer (born 1968)
Edward Platt (born 1968) is an English writer.
Platt won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his 2000 book Leadville, about the Western Avenue section of the A40 road in London.[1]
Platt was born in Chelmsford, Essex, and grew up in Hampshire, Northumberland, and the Wirral. Since 1992, he has lived in London.
His second book, The City of Abraham, published in 2012, is about the West Bank city of Hebron.
He was a book reviewer and feature writer between 1995 and 2007 for several national newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Express, The Sunday Times and The Guardian, Evening Standard, Financial Times, and Independent on Sunday. He contributed to the Big Issue magazine between 1993 and 2000.
Bibliography
- Leadville (2000)
- The City of Abraham (Picador, 2012)
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Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams' foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart (1965), character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two decades prior to copping that rare comedy role. Born in Staten Island, New York, on Valentine's Day, 1916, he inherited an appreciation of music on his mother's side. He spent a part of his childhood in Kentucky and in upstate New York where he attended Northwood, a private school in Lake Placid, and was a member of the ski jump team. He majored in romantic languages at Princeton University but left a year later to study at the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati after his thoughts turned to a possible operatic career. He later was accepted into Juilliard.
Instead of opera, however, Ed first became a band vocalist with Paul Whiteman and Orchestra. He then sang bass as part of the Mozart Opera Company in New York. With the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company in 1942, he appeared in the operettas "The Mikado," "The Gondoliers" and "The Pirates of Pen
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