Tony Parker (Writer)
His many books specialise in social history and crime. He also wrote for television. This included episodes of Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch, Within These Walls, and Crown Court. He also wrote individual plays for television and radio, and articles for broadsheet Sunday newspapers.
Tony Parker was born in Manchester England in 1923. He has written many books of a social documentary nature, all of them based on tape-recorded interviews - a tecnique he has pioneered and made his own. In a review of contemporary literature in the Times Literary Supplement, his work was described as "the one new art form of the past decade" and Anthony Storr referred to him in the Sunday Times as "Britain's most expert interviewer".
Tony Parker died in his beloved Suffolk cottage on 5th October 1996.
Bibliography:
The Courage of His Convictions. The Unknown Citizen. The Plough Boy. Five Women. A Man of Good Abilities. People of the Streets. The Twisting Lane: Some Sex Offenders. The Frying Pan: A Prison and Its Prisoners. In No Man's Land: Some Unmarried Mothers. The Man Inside: An Anthology of Prisoners Writings. Three Television Plays. Lighthouse. The People Of Providence: A housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants. Walrus: Three Television Plays for Schools. Soldier, Soldier. Red Hill: A Mining Community. A Place Called Bird. (In Kansas, U.S.A.). Life After Life: Interviews with Twelve Murderers. Russian Voices. May the Lord in His Mercy be kind to Belfast. The Violence of Our Lives: Interviews with American Murderers. Studs Terkel: A Life in Words. A biography of Studs Terkel. Criminal Conversations: An Anthology edited by Prof' Keith Soothill.