Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Archer found his first major success as an author with Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less in 1976 and went on to sell millions of novels, most notably Kane and Abel. He served as a Conservative MP for five years, later became the party's deputy chairman, and was made a life peer as Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare in 1992. In 2001 he was jailed for four years for perjury and perverting the course of justice after a jury found he had lied in a libel case he had brought against the Daily Star; he was released in 2003 and retired from the House of Lords in 2024. His final novel, Adam and Eve, was due for publication the day after his death. His publisher HarperCollins announced that he died suddenly and peacefully at his home on October 5 at the age of 86; no cause was given.