Paul Torday was a British writer and the author of the comic novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good... Wikipedia
Born: August 1, 1946, Croxdale, United Kingdom
Died: December 18, 2013 (age 67 years), Northumberland, United Kingdom
Partner: Jane Clare Mortimer
Children: Piers Torday and Nicholas Lazlo Torday
Spouse: Penelope Josephine Taylor (m. 1991–2013)