Best selling author and former UK MP Jeffrey Archer dies at 86

Jeffrey Archer became a Member of Parliament in the UK at just 29 years of age. However his parliamentary career came to an end in 1974, after he became almost bankrupt. This after collapse of a Canadian industrial cleaning company in which he had invested.

New Delhi: British author Jeffrey Archer, one of the best selling novelists and a former Conservative MP died on Monday, informed his publisher, Harper Collins. He was also convicted of perjury.

Talking about the circumstances surrounding his death, Harper Collins said, “Archer died “suddenly and peacefully at his home between writing sessions.”

His editor, Kate Elton described him as a “master storyteller and an editor’s dream.”

Archer was set to attend the Cheltenham Literary Festival later this week. Here he was to discuss his novel, ‘Adan and Eve’, which he called “his final novel after 50 years of story telling.”

The novel was to be published on Tuesday.

According to newspaper reports in UK, Archer had been signing books for fans in London on Sunday.

Archer’s life and political career

In 2014, the author had revealed that he........

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