Pete Davies is an English author of history and sports.
Career
[edit]| External videos | |
|---|---|
 Booknotes interview with Davies on American Road, September 2, 2002, C-SPAN |
He wrote American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age about the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, for which Davies visited sites along the Lincoln Highway.[1][2] His newspaper clippings are part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.[3]
Davies' All Played Out, an eyewitness account of the England men's football team at the 1990 World Cup,[4][5][6][7] was adapted into One Night in Turin, a documentary film, in 2010.[8] The original book has been described as "the best football book ever written".[9]
In 1994–95, Davies turned his attentions to women's football and spent the season with Doncaster Belles while writing I Lost my Heart to the Belles.
Davies settled in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, where in 2010 he worked at the local Sainsbury's supermarket and had a season ticket for Huddersfield Town.[10]
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- (1986) Last Election
- (1989) Dollarville
- (2017) Playlist
Non-fiction
[edit]- (1990) All Played Out
- (1992) Storm Country: A Journey to the Heart of America
- (1994) Twenty-Two Foreigners in Funny Shorts: The Intelligent Fan's Guide to Soccer and World Cup '94
- (1996) I Lost My Heart to The Belles
- (1998) This England
- (1998) Mad Dogs and English Women
- (1999) Catching Cold; published in the United States as The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
- (2001) The Devil's Music: Into the Eye of the Hurricane
- (2002) American Road
Film adaptations
[edit]- 2010 One Night in Turin — directed by James Erskine
References
[edit]- ^ "The resourceful traveler". Chicago Tribune. 21 August 2002. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
- ^ Kirsch, Jonathan (15 September 2002). "Country Roads, Take Us Home". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2009.
- ^ "Eisenhower Presidential Library". eisenhower.archives.gov.
- ^ Dawson, Tom (27 April 2010). "One Night In Turin". Total Film. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^ One Night in Turin: The Inside Story of a World Cup that Changed our Footballing Nation Forever [Paperback]. 15 April 2010. ASIN 0224083341.
- ^ "Book Review: All Played Out: The Full Story of Italia '90 – Pete Davies (also published as One Night in Turin)". The Sports Book Review. 28 January 2014. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^ Quinn, Anthony (7 May 2010). "One Night in Turin (15)". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^ Jenkins, David (4 May 2010). "One Night in Turin (15)". Time Out. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ^ Wilson, Paul (14 June 2014). "This Man Works For Sainsbury's. He Also Wrote The Best Football Book Ever". Esquire (UK Edition). Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ "Huddersfield writer Pete Davies sees World Cup story brought to cinema screens". Huddersfield Daily Examiner. 11 May 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
External links
[edit]| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
 | This article about an English non-fiction writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article about a British journalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |