![]() After five years of development, Peter and his partner sold the business to a top American advertising agency, BBDO. The pair developed the business over the next several years attracting many prominent clients including Sony, Watneys and Olivetti. In the mid-1960s Peter and a fellow colleague purchased Papert Koenig’s London branch. Mayle eventually caught the attention of Papert Koenig, a competing advertising agency and moved back to London to head up their creative team. In 1961 David Ogilvy gave Peter a job as a copywriter in the New York office which better suited his creative aspirations. Ogilvy offered Peter Mayle a position as a junior account executive However, Mayle was interested in the creative side of advertising. It wasn’t long before Mayle realized he had an interest in advertising Ambitiously, Peter wrote to David Ogilvy, head of advertisement for Shell at the time, and requested a job. In 1957 he began his first job, working as a trainee at the Shell Oil office in London. At sixteen, Peter dropped out of school and returned to England. ![]() The youngest of three children, Mayle and his family moved to Barbados at the end or World War II. Peter was born on Jin Brighton, East Sussex, England. ![]() Grown-Ups and Other Problems: Help for Small People in a Big Worldīritish author Peter Mayle is known for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. 'What's Happening to Me?': A Guide to Puberty ![]()
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