{{short description|British novelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2011}} '''Peter Prince''' (born 10 May 1942)<ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | title = Weekend birthdays | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | pages = 52 | date = 10 May 2014 | url = }}</ref> is a British [[novelist]]. He was born in England and studied in America. His first novel ''Play Things'' won the [[Somerset Maugham Award]] in 1973.<ref>"[http://www.societyofauthors.org/somerset-maugham-past-winners The Somerset Maugham Awards Past Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626045958/http://www.societyofauthors.org/somerset-maugham-past-winners |date=2016-06-26 }}", The Society of Authors, retrieved 2011-07-12</ref> He was nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Writing in a Limited Series or a Special for his work on the 1980 [[BBC]] miniseries ''[[Oppenheimer (TV series)|Oppenheimer]]''. His 1983 novel ''The Good Father'' was adapted into a [[The Good Father|1985 film of the same name]] starring [[Anthony Hopkins]].<ref name="Rosenfeld">Rosenfeld, Megan (1987) "Father,' Deeply Felt; Hopkins Shines in a Tale of Divorce", ''[[Washington Post]]'', 13 March 1987, p. B01</ref> His latest novel ''Adam Runaway'' was published in 2005.
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*''Play Things'' (1972), novel *''Oppenheimer'' (1980), teleplay *''The Good Father'' (1983), novel *''The Great Circle'' (1997), novel *''Adam Runaway'' (2005), novel
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