Barry Crump

Barry Crump

Barry Crump in 1994
Barry Crump in 1994
BornJohn Barrie Crump
(1935-05-15)15 May 1935
Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand
Died3 July 1996(1996-07-03) (aged 61)
OccupationNovelist

John Barrie Crump MBE (15 May 1935 – 3 July 1996) was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man. Taken together his novels have sold more than a million copies domestically.[1] Crump's 1986 work Wild Pork and Watercress was adapted into the 2016 Taika Waititi film Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

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