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PETER THOMPSON has written biographies on the Princess of Wales, the Duchess of York, Elvis Presley, Aristotle Onassis and Jack Nicholson. His latest book is Pacific Fury: How Australia and her Allies defeated the Japanese scourge, a comprehensive examination of the War in the Pacific from both the military and civilian points of view.
Born in Melbourne and educated at Brisbane Grammar School,
Thompson joined the London Daily Mirror in 1966
after working on The Courier-Mail, Brisbane, and The Sun
News-Pictorial, Melbourne.
He was a Fleet Street journalist for twenty years, rising to night
editor and deputy editor of the Daily
Mirror, editor of the Sunday
Mirror and a director of Mirror Group Newspapers. In
1988 Thompson was
the first Mirror Group editor to break ranks and expose the criminality
of his boss Robert Maxwell. Thompson’s first book, Maxwell:
A Portrait of Power, written with former Mirrorman and fellow
Australian Anthony Delano, detailed the publishing tycoon’s rise to
power through acts of fraud, deception and dishonesty.
Since becoming a fulltime writer, Thompson has collaborated with his Sunday Mirror colleague Chris Hutchins on four biographies, and he also wrote Feminine Power, a book of interviews with powerful and influential women, with Mona Bauwens. Four of his books - The Battle of Brisbane (2000), Kill the Tiger (2002), The Man Who Died Twice: The Life and Adventures of Morrison of Peking (2004) and Keep off the Skyline: Ron Cashman and the Diggers in Korea (2004) – have been written in collaboration with his long-time friend Robert Macklin. Thompson and Macklin are currently working on a business biography of BHP Billiton.
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