What is Philip Kerr?
[[File:Paris - Salon du livre de Paris 2017 - Philip Kerr - 001.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kerr in March 2017]] '''Philip Ballantyne Kerr''' (22 February 1956 &ndash; 23 March 2018) was a [[British people|British]] novelist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5502|title=Philip Kerr|work=International Science Fiction Database}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=neKm1X6YPY0C&dq=%22Philip+Kerr%22+22+February&pg=PA875|title=The International Who's Who 2004|year=2003|page=875|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=9781857432176}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wavesound.com.au/Browse/Bestselling-Authors/Philip-Kerr|title=Philip Kerr|publisher=Wavesound|access-date=8 November 2017|archive-date=12 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190312134045/https://www.wavesound.com.au/Browse/Bestselling-Authors/Philip-Kerr|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was born in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland. Kerr wrote for ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'', the ''[[Evening Standard]]'', and the ''[[New Statesman]]''. He was married to fellow novelist [[Jane Thynne]]. Kerr was known for the Bernie Gunther series of [[historical mystery|historical thrillers]] set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the [[Second World War]] and the [[Cold War]]. He also wrote children's books under the name '''P. B. Kerr''', including the ''Children of the Lamp'' series. Kerr died on 23 March 2018 in [[London]] at the age of 62.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/24/philip-kerr-author-of-bernie-gunther-novels-dies-aged-62 Philip Kerr, author of Bernie Gunther novels, dies aged 62]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.pbkerr.com/ Official P. B. Kerr website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308002458/http://pbkerr.com/ |date=2017-03-08 }} * [http://berniegunther.com/ Bernie Gunther fansite] * [http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/interview_view.aspx?interview_id=220 Interview in Shotsmag Ezine 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web