Peter Prince

{{short description|British novelist}}

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Peter Prince (born 10 May 1942){{Citation

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}} is a British novelist. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel Play Things won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1973."[http://www.societyofauthors.org/somerset-maugham-past-winners The Somerset Maugham Awards Past Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626045958/http://www.societyofauthors.org/somerset-maugham-past-winners |date=2016-06-26 }}", The Society of Authors, retrieved 2011-07-12 He was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 BBC miniseries Oppenheimer. His 1983 novel The Good Father was adapted into a 1985 film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins.Rosenfeld, Megan (1987) "Father,' Deeply Felt; Hopkins Shines in a Tale of Divorce", Washington Post, 13 March 1987, p. B01 His latest novel Adam Runaway was published in 2005.