Simon Archer (author)

Simon Archer (1956/1957 – September 1993)^[1] was a newspaper journalist, press officer,^[2] and a biographer of Gerry Anderson.^[3]

He spent four years with local newspapers^[4] as a journalist^[2] and later worked for Kodak Limited in the public relations division as a company press officer. During 1986, Archer made a Kodak book containing photographs taken by Dave Lee Travis.^[4] He later went to HBM Limited, where he specialized in PR consultancy. It was during 1990 that he interviewed Anderson for the Century 21 magazine.^[2] Later on, he started work on his book called Gerry Anderson: The Authorised Biography.

In September 1993, Archer became involved in an accident on the M25 and consequently died at the age of thirty-six—he was making a journey to Gerry and Mary Anderson with the first printed copies of a book of his called Fab Facts.^[1] Additionally, Archer's death meant that he failed to finish his manuscript for Gerry Anderson's biography.^[5]

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