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 his 41 comic fantasy novels set on the Discworld, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990) which he wrote with Neil Gaiman. Wikipedia