 His son was born in 1963 and worked as an English teacher at Wolverhampton Grammar School until the end of the autumn 2012.His daughter, Kathy Lovesey, was born in 1960, and now lives with her family in Greenwich, Connecticut.Peter Lovesey has won awards for his fiction, including Gold and Silver Daggers from the British Crime Writers' Association, the Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, the French Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and first place in the Mystery Writers of America's 50th Anniversary Short Story Contest.