George Pendle

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George Pendle (born 1976) is a British author and journalist. He studied at Stowe School and St Peter's College, Oxford, and worked at The Times as a writer and commissioning editor from 1997 to 2001. His first book, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005), inspired the TV series Strange Angel (2018–2019) on CBS All Access. His second book, The Remarkable Millard Fillmore: The Unbelievable Life of a Forgotten President (2007), is a playful biography of Millard Fillmore. His third book, Death: A Life (2008), is a humorous look at the personification of Death. In 2014 he released Happy Failure, a collection of non-fiction. Since 2001, Pendle has written for Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Frieze, Cabinet, History Today, Bidoun, The Economist, Esquire, Slate, and The Guardian, among others. He is Editor At Large for Air Mail and lives in New York City, where he has also written signs for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.