Author

Books by Ken Follett

Ken Follett is a Welsh author who began his career writing thrillers and spy novels before turning to historical fiction. Eye of the Needle (1978) was his breakthrough thriller. The Pillars of the Earth (1989) took eight years to research and write and sold slowly at first before becoming one of the bestselling historical novels of all time, with over twenty-six million copies sold. He followed it with World Without End (2007) and A Column of Fire (2017), completing the Kingsbridge trilogy. He has also written the Century Trilogy — Fall of Giants, Winter of the World, Edge of Eternity — covering the twentieth century. He lives in Stevenage, England, and is active in Labour Party politics.