Sir Terence David John Pratchett<!--- Pratchett was a Knight Bachelor, not a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, so he is a "Sir", but his postnominals remain OBE, not KBE: ---> (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Wikipedia
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