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3 unusual facts about Ken Follett


Arbor House

Specialising in hard cover publications, Arbor House published works by Hortense Calisher, Ken Follett, Cynthia Freeman, Elmore Leonard and Irwin Shaw before being acquired by the Hearst Corporation in 1979 to move into paperback publishing.

Nicola Philipps

Philipps was commissioned in 2002 to paint a large composition of Ken Follett surrounded by characters from his novels.

Tourism in the Basque Autonomous Community

This is the location of the church of San Miguel, home to the patron saint, the White Virgin, and Santa María Cathedral, whose restored works which are open to the public inspired the writer Ken Follett to write his novel World Without End in 2007.


Martyrs of Córdoba

Adolphus is the saint of the fictional Kingsbridge Cathedral in the epic historical novels The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End by Ken Follett.

Natalia Wörner

In 2009, she played the role of Ellen in the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth, based on the eponymous book by Ken Follett.

Sergio Mimica-Gezzan

He directed six episodes of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, two episodes of Heroes, and the television adaptation of Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth.

The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark

The earlier part of Ken Follett's novel "Hornet Flight", taking place in World War II Nazi-occupied Denmark, is set in West Jutland community dominated by the Inner Mission.


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