![]() ![]() He also published several books in the Wicked Willie series, featuring a talking cartoon penis. His humorous children’s guide to reproduction, Where Did I Come From?, was widely translated and sold more than 2 million copies. After considerable success, Mayle set out on his own in the 1970s to write books, specialising at first in children’s titles, often on such sensitive subjects as sex, divorce and death. ![]() He rerturend to England after leaving school at 16, but by his early twenties a copywriting career and taken to New York for a firm led by British advertising tycoon David Ogilvy. Mayle was born in Surrey but was schooled in Barbados, his father a Colonial Office worker. He returned to France in the late Nineties, settling several miles from his original house but careful not to reveal the exact location. ![]() Mayle moved to Amagansett, on New York’s Long Island, for several years, writing novels and other books evoking the life of Provence. ![]()
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