Tarquin Hall
1969
Tarquin Hall is one of the popular writers as well as a journalist from The United Kingdom. He was born in the year 1969 to an American mother and an English father. Author Hall has lived out of England during most of his growing years. A few places that he has lived include Pakistan, United States, Turkey, India, and Kenya. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. As an author, Hall has penned down a total of 7 novels and a number of articles which have featured in numerous British magazines and newspapers including the Sunday Times, Observer, New Statesman, Times, and the Daily Telegraph. Apart from this, author Hall has also worked in the television news. He is a former bureau chief of the South Asian Associated Press TV. The subject matter that he had chosen has proved to be extraordinarily diverse. Hall has also written several features on a variety of topics like the hunters of Texan rattlesnake, the Urdu poets of British-Asian origin, Wilfred Thesiger, and the Taliban. The exclusive reports of author Hall consist of a profile on the marshes draining of Iraq by Saddam Hussein; an English woman named Emma McCune, who went on to marry the guerrilla commander of Southern Sudan, Riek Machar; as well as a one on one interaction with Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish leader of the PKK, in a safe house in Syria. The books written by author Hall have received a lot of praise and appreciations in the English press. His second book titled ‘To the Elephant Graveyard’, was termed as a ‘classic’ by the Daily Mail representative named Christopher Matthew.