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  Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is the author of a number of books, has raised considerable sums for charities, is a former MP and was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and was later convicted of perjury.
Archer was put on trial for perjury and perverting the course of justice in December 2000.
Archer very often takes his characters from the upper classes of the UK or New England, discussing mannerisms and sensitivities from that layer of society.
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 Jeffrey Archer Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare (born April 15, 1940) is the successful author of a number of popular novels, a convicted perjurer and former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and MP.
Archer's literary pretensions were consolidated by his purchase of the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, a house associated with Rupert Brooke.
On July 19, 2001 Jeffrey Archer was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jeffrey_archer.html   (707 words)

  
 United Press International - International - Feature: New Jeffrey Archer saga unfolds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Archer was arrested for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Archer was a model prisoner, and as a non-violent criminal, was sent to the North Sea Camp open prison in Lincolnshire, where he was allowed out under supervision to 'work in the community.' He worked at a local theatre, charming everyone in sight, and clearly on a loose rein.
Archer was transferred to Lincoln Prison where, once again, the press delighted to report he was harassed by the inmates, spat on, insulted and locked in a cell for much of the time.
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 BBC NEWS | UK | Timeline: Stranger than fiction
Jeffrey Archer was made a life peer as a reward for his services to the Conservative Party.
Archer was initially classed as a Category D prisoner suitable for an open jail, but was graded Category C after Scotland Yard launched an inquiry into allegations that millions of pounds went missing from a fundraising campaign run by the peer.
Archer was therefore transferred from Belmarsh to the category C Wayland Prison in Norfolk, rather than an open jail.
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 HELLO! Profiles
Jeffrey Archer once said that when he was three years old he wanted to be four.
Jeffrey Howard Archer was born on April 15, 1940, in the City of London maternity hospital to William Archer and his wife Lola, a journalist.
But when a friend who had provided Archer with an alibi in the prostitute case admitted he'd concocted his story, the would-be politician was forced to bow out of the campaign and found himself facing the Old Bailey.
www.hellomagazine.com /profiles/jeffreyarcher   (607 words)

  
 NZOOM - ONE News - World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
English peer and novelist Jeffrey Archer is behind bars after a jury in London found him guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice for rigging his 1987 libel trial.
Lady Archer, famously described as "fragrant" by the judge at the original libel trial, had told the court she remembered seeing a diary, which the jury rejected.
Archer, 61, who has homes in London and Cambridge, was convicted on two counts of perverting the course of justice and two of perjury, but cleared on a third charge of perverting justice.
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 Authors on the Web - Jeffrey Archer
Archer often bases his novels on public figures: Margaret Thatcher (the main character in First Among Equals), Saddam Hussein (Honor Among Thieves) and Rupert Murdoch and the late Robert Maxwell (The Fourth Estate).
Jeffrey Archer was born in Western Super Mare, England on April 15, 1940 and grew up in Somerset.
Many of Archer's novels center around two or more individuals who are highly ambitious, strong-willed and are determined to defeat one another in order to gain power and fortune.
www.authorsontheweb.com /features/authormonth/0301archer/archer-jeffrey.asp   (1156 words)

  
 Jeffrey, Francis, Lord Jeffrey on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Jeffrey Archer Lord Of The Lies: THE GRIPPING STORY OF A FALLEN TORY LEGEND; RIVETING, astonishing, unputdownable...
Centre stage yet again At 58, Mary Archer's poised demeanour is as undiminished as her support for her jailed husband.
Not A Happy Ending: In a case as complex as one of his thrillers, best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer goes to prison for perjury.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/Jeffrey.asp   (616 words)

  
 First Among Equals (Jeffrey Archer)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Larry King has said of Jeffrey Archer, "There isn't a better storyteller alive." One would be hard pressed to find a better reader alive for this story of a fight for power.
Archer, a member of the House of Lords, well knows the terrain in which he sets his story, and Martin Jarvis well knows how to deliver it.
Archer's gift of storytelling is strong, and perhaps best when he is dealing with situations he himself has survived.
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 Bookreporter.com - TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT by Jeffrey Archer
Archer established himself long ago as a master of this format, with four superb collections to his credit and now a fifth, TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT.
Archer accomplishes that same feat, and with such a remarkable variety in the selections that you keep wishing there were twice as many.
Archer's skill in capturing those curious idiosyncrasies that make even ordinary people so interesting coupled with his endless capacity for imaginative situations are the reasons behind his enormous popularity as a short story writer.
www.bookreporter.com /reviews/006018552X.asp   (490 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Special report: Jeffrey Archer
March 28: Jeffrey Archer is to contest his conviction for perjury in an appeal that will feature claims that he was involved in the murder of TV presenter Jill Dando.
July 28: Jeffrey Archer could be stripped of his right to sit in the House of Lords and possibly even his title, it emerged yesterday.
July 27 1987: Mr Jeffrey Archer was yesterday awarded record libel damages of £500,000 and more still in costs from the Star newspaper for accusing him of paying a prostitute for sex.
www.guardian.co.uk /archer/0,2759,180881,00.html   (812 words)

  
 rediff.com US edition: MCC suspends novelist Jeffrey Archer's membership
The suspension of cricket-loving Archer, who is serving a four-year prison sentence, means he will be nearly 70-years-old before he is able to enter the hallowed members' enclosure at the MCC.
News of Archer's suspension and even expulsion had been the subject of intense speculation for several weeks and coincided with demands from members of Parliament that he should also be stripped of his peerage.
Archer's friends say he is nevertheless devastated by the decision.
www.indiaabroad.com /us/2002/oct/28uk1.htm   (381 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Gallery | In pictures: Jeffrey Archer
July 16 2001: Jeffrey Archer leaving the Old Bailey as the jury in his trial for perjury are sent home for the day after failing to come to a verdict.
Archer made a fortune from his bestselling novels such as Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less.
Mrs Archer was described as 'fragrant' by the judge.
www.guardian.co.uk /gall/0,8542,523145,00.html   (457 words)

  
 The Observer | Focus | Focus special: Jeffrey Archer's multiple personalities
Archer adopts the persona of a sanctimonious prison reformer, raging against the iniquities of the system.
Archer the criminologist is suddenly an authority on prison conditions and the need for radical reform.
Archer attends a prison religious service: 'We are all ready for the sermon and what a sermon it turns out to be.
www.observer.co.uk /focus/story/0,6903,810942,00.html   (1794 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Rapturous reception for Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer won one of the loudest standing ovations of the week at the Conservative party conference today with a rousing speech outlining his plans to become London's mayor.
Lord Archer, who defeated former minister Steven Norris to become Tory prospective candidate in the contest, was given a rapturous reception in Blackpool's Winter Gardens.
Lord Archer drew strong applause when he said it was time "to get off the police's back and give them the support they deserve".
www.guardian.co.uk /lab99/Story/0,2763,202111,00.html   (416 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Archer jailed for perjury
Lord Archer, who was ordered to pay £175,000 costs within 12 months, was told by the judge he would have to serve at least half of his sentence.
Lord Archer was found guilty of two charges of perjury and two of perverting the course of justice.
Lord Archer had chosen not to take the stand during the trial, which saw his former secretary Angela Peppiatt relate details of his "marital infidelities" with a former employee.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/uk/newsid_1424000/1424501.stm   (807 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Review: Jeffrey Archer's Prison Diary... Hell
Archer, although not accepting an offer to perform in the play - or act as the voice of the judge that sentences him - has given his full support to the venture.
Archer is played with uncanny familiarity by the capable Andrew McBean - sporting the original Tigger rugby shirt Archer wore in prison.
Archer is portrayed as a man who, for some reason, deserves respect.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3541786.stm   (441 words)

  
 Jeffrey Archer Bookstore
Archer is a devotee of the theater--and proud owner of the Playhouse in London.
Archer even pauses briefly to flesh out Connor's family life and the tensions of living with secrets that his wife and beloved daughter suspect but will never know.
Jeffrey Archer's collection of twelve spellbinding stories will sweep you on a journey of thwarted ambition, undying passion, and unswerving honor that you'll never forget.
westwood.fortunecity.com /vuitton/403/jeffreyarcher1.htm   (2655 words)

  
 Cronaca: Jeffrey's Archer's art now in question
Jeffrey Archer has been convicted as a perjurer and caught out as an adulterer but no one has questioned the integrity of his multimillion-pound art collection.
A BBC documentary, to be broadcast on Monday to coincide with Archer’s release from prison, will allege that the painting of the Houses of Parliament by the French impressionist Claude Monet, which has pride of place in his London penthouse, may be a forgery.
The programme, Archer’s Millions: Liquid Assets, claims that the novelist’s private art collection is worth about £20 million but that he lost £500,000 when he disposed of his collection of Warhol paintings as news of his arrest came to light.
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 Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer - GOOD BOOKS - Outpost 10F Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Jeffrey Archers novel "Kane and Abel" is a work of sheer genius.
It is set in the early 1900's and tells the story of two remarkable men trapped by their hatred for each other despite the fact that they have never even met before.
After the success of this book, Jeffrey Archer wrote another novel that continues to tell the story of "Kane and Abel's"children and their individual triumphs and failures and how they finally overcome their fathers' hatred and loathing.
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 Jeffrey Archer - biography,books by Jeffrey Archey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Archer's literary pretensions were consolidated by his purchase of the Old Vicarage, Grantchester, a house associated with Rupert Brooke.Archer's political career thrived once he became well-known for his books.
Throughout his later career, he was doggedly investigated by the journalist, Michael Crick, who has become famous as Archer's unofficial biographer and nemesis.On July 19, 2001 Jeffrey Archer was found guilty of perjury and perverting the course of justice.
He was sentenced to a total of 4 years imprisonment.In July 2003 he was released on probation, after serving half of his sentence, from Her Majesty's Prison Hollesley Bay, Suffolk.
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 Amazon.com: Books: A Prison Diary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Of course, some of Archer's observations and the inmates' tales can't be taken as gospel since Archer is a convicted perjurer and his secondhand stories come from the mouths of murderers and other felons.
In 2001, Jeffrey Archer was convicted of perjury, arising out of his libel suit against a tabloid newspaper some years earlier, from which he had profited enormously.
Convicted of perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, Archer was initially sent to Belmarsh, a high-security jail in London, pending recategorisation to a lower-security prison based on being assessed as low-risk.
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 CTV.ca | Author Jeffrey Archer released from jail
Lord Archer, 63, had been convicted of lying during his successful 1987 libel action against the Daily Star newspaper, which claimed he had hired a prostitute.
Archer also admitted breaching prison regulations by identifying other inmates in the first instalment of his prison diaries.
Jeffrey Archer has bounced back time and again from brushes with scandal, financial ruin and the law.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1058805975108_9   (451 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | A tale of two cons: Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer's first taste of freedom came at 8.17am yesterday, a little after his last taste of prison-issue Rice Krispies.
The only waiting crowds were journal ists, and there were no impassioned speeches: indeed, bizarrely for Lord Archer, free after serving half of a four-year sentence for perjury and perverting the course of justice, there were no speeches at all.
But the Archers themselves said nothing, a policy that they would stick to throughout a day that took the peer and novelist to his parole office in Stockwell, south London, and to the flat where he has elected to live.
politics.guardian.co.uk /conservatives/story/0,9061,1003331,00.html   (823 words)

  
 Jeffrey_archer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Prisoner FF8282, as Archer is now known, spent the first three weeks in the notorious HMP Belmarsh, a high.security prison in South London, home to murderers, terrorists and some of Britain's most violent criminals.
Archer is one of the better story teller's of our time...
Archer at his best : Jeffrey Archer has impressively compiled together `A Quiver Full of Arrows'.
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 BBC NEWS | Politics | Archer moved from open prison
Lady Archer maintained that she thought her husband was being treated less favourably than other prisoners in his category.
Lady Archer later confirmed that her husband had gone to the home of South West Norfolk MP Gillian Shephard without informing jail authorities.
Lord Archer was jailed at the Old Bailey in July last year after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice and lying in his 1987 libel trial against the Daily Star newspaper.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/2283443.stm   (864 words)

  
 The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer, 0006496466, Lowest Book Price Finder
Former MP and prospective Mayor of London Jeffrey Archer's latest offering is an ambitious international thriller of expansive scope, a tale of espionage, intrigue and suspense at the very highest echelons of power.
Archer wastes no time diving into his rollercoaster of a plot; we are introduced to our hero, Connor Fitzgerald, "the CIA's most deadly weapon", as he completes his mission--to assassinate a presidential candidate in Colombia.
One might assume that, given Archer's proximity to genuine political power for much of his life, he would be in a position to bring a greater realism to his story of high-stakes political manoeuvring than other authors without his experience.
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