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Colin Dexter Biography |
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(Norman) Colin Dexter, Order of the British Empire (born 29 September 1930 in Stamford, England, Lincolnshire) is the England author of the popular Inspector Morse novels.
Dexter was educated at Stamford School. After National Service with the Royal Corps of Signals he read Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1953. In 1954, he started his teaching career in the East Midlands, becoming assistant classics master at Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, Leicester. A post at Loughborough Grammar School followed, before he took up the position of senior classics teacher at Corby Grammar School, Northamptonshire, in 1959. In 1966, he was forced by the onset of hearing impairment to retire from teaching, and took up the post of Senior Assistant Secretary at the University of Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations (UODLE) in Oxford - a job he held until his retirement in 1988. Writing career He started writing mysteries in 1972 during a family holiday: "We were in a little guest house halfway between Caernarfon and Pwllheli. It was a Saturday and it was raining - it's not unknown for it to rain in North Wales. The children were moaning ... I was sitting at the kitchen table with nothing else to do, and I wrote the first few paragraphs of a potential detective novel." Last Bus to Woodstock was published in 1975 and introduced the world to the character of Inspector Morse, the irascible detective whose penchants for cryptic crosswords, English literature, cask ale and Richard Wagner reflect Dexter's own enthusiasms. The success of the TV series based on Inspector Morse and produced between 1987 and 2001, brought further acclaim for Dexter. In the manner of Alfred Hitchcock, he also makes a cameo appearance in almost all episodes.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0223294/bio. Retrieved 5 January 2006. Awards Dexter has been the recipient of several Crime Writers' Association "Gold Dagger" awards, and in 2000 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. Bibliography See also 
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