Peter May was a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist, and crime writer. He was the recipient of writing awards in Europe and America. The Blackhouse won the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the national literature award in France, the Cezam Prix Litteraire. The Lewis Man won the French daily newspaper Le Télégramme's 10,000-euro Grand Prix des Lecteurs. In 2014, Entry Island won both the Deanston's Scottish Crime Novel of the Year and the UK's ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. May's books have sold more than twelve million copies worldwide.
- Occupation
- journalist, writer, screenwriter, novelist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, France
- Born
- December 20, 1951
- Died
