Pete Davies
Pete Davies is the book author of 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] Davies' newspaper clippings are part of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum,[3] and he was interviewed about the book in 2002 on Booknotes.[4]
Davies' All Played Out, an eye-witness account of the England men's football team at the 1990 World Cup,[5][6][7][8] was adapted[9] into a documentary film in 2010. The original book has been described as "the best football book ever written".[10]
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.[11]
Bibliography
Novels
- (1986) Last Election
- (1989) Dollarville
Non-fiction
- (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
- (2001) The Devil's Music: Into the Eye of the Hurricane
- (2002) American Road
Film adaptations
- 2010 One Night in Turin — directed by James Erskine
References
- ↑ "The resourceful traveler.". Chicago Tribune. August 21, 2002. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ↑ Kirsch, Jonathan (September 15, 2002). "Country Roads, Take Us Home". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2009-01-17.
- ↑ http://eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Finding_Aids/D.html
- ↑ http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/171603-1/Pete+Davies.aspx
- ↑ 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]". Amazon.co.uk. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ↑ "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. Retrieved 30 June 2014.
- ↑ Quinn, Anthony (7 May 2010). "One Night in Turin (15)". The Independent. 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.