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About Paul Wheeler (writer)
- Paul Wheeler (born 1934) is a British screenwriter and novelist.
- He was born in 1934 in Kingston, Jamaica.
- He obtained his BA from Exeter College, Oxford in 1959 and his MA from the University of Chicago in 1960.
- As a screenwriter, he is best known for his scripts for The Medallion (2003), Caravan to Vaccares (1974) and The Terrorists (1975).
- He also wrote scripts for numerous TV series like Tenko, Minder and Poldark.
- In the early 1980s, he published a novel on the Bodyline controversy, which was adapted as an Australian TV series starring Hugo Weaving. He married Alexandra Martinez in 1964.
- Their two children Lara and Sacha were named after characters in Doctor Zhivago.
- Originally working for MI6, Wheeler turned to full-time writing when his income from TV plays exceeded his regular salary.
- He is related by marriage to the American journalist Morton Kondracke.
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