Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo campaign. He is best known for his long-running series of novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of thirteen novels about the unification of England.
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, journalist, historian
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- February 23, 1944
- Website
- http://www.bernardcornwell.net/