# How Jeffrey Archer went from young MP to bankrupt to bestselling novelist

An episode of [ABC News Top Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1668721389), 6 Oct 2026, 3:28.

Audio: https://mediacore-live-production.akamaized.net/audio/02/p5/Z/m9.mp3

British author and former MP Jeffrey Archer has died at home aged 86, on the eve of the release of his final novel, Adam and Eve. He became an MP at 29, was bankrupted, turned to writing novels, and was jailed for perjury in 2001 over his 1987 libel case against the Daily Star. So how will Jeffrey Archer be remembered?

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