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Terry Pratchett was born on April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire, England. In his Who's Who (a book about influential people in the UK) page, he credited his education to the Beaconsfield public library -
Called "The Hades Business," Pratchett's first short story, written at the age of 13 was about a businessman who meets the devil in his flat. It was published commercially when he was 15. -
In 1965, Pratchett left school to begin an apprenticeship in journalism with Arthur Church, the editor of a journal called the Bucks Free Press. -
In 1971, Terry Pratchett published his first novel. Though he had written it at the age of 17, he edited and published it later, with several years of journalism under his belt. -
Her name is Rhianna Pratchett. -
In 1983, Terry Pratchett published the first book of 41 in his famous "Discworld" series, which he would use to mold the genre of fantasy as he pleased. It wasn't a particularly good book. -
Pratchett quit his "day job" working at the Central Electricity Generation Board after publishing his fourth novel, Mort, about Death's apprentice, Mort. It was a good book. -
In 2009, Pratchett was knighted for "services to literature" -
Terry Pratchett's best-selling book, Snuff, was released in 2011. It advocates for equality and was the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. -
In 2015, Pratchett died at his home. In one of his books, Going Postal, semaphore overhead (similar to real-world telegram) messages are used to remember late people with the code GNU.