Paul Cornell

Paul Cornell is an author, who is notable for creating Bernice Summerfield in his novel Love and War. He has written several New Adventures and edited several Bernice Summerfield anthologies for Big Finish. He is also co-author of The Avengers Programme Guide.

Paul Cornell was responsible for several additions to the Doctor Who universe other than Bernice Summerfield. He also created Wolsey the cat "A friend of mine has cat called Wolsey, and I wanted there to be a cat in the TARDIS, and I put it to Peter Darvill-Evans and Co. And they said No no no. And then a few nights latter at a nice drinking session Rebecca said, 'Thish cat Poll, Thish cat Wolsey, we'll av im we'll av im'." ^[1]

He also wrote Father's Day for the 2005 series of Doctor Who, and adapted his novel Human Nature into the two-part Human Nature/The Family of Blood for the 2006 series. Both were nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, though he lost out both times to fellow Who scribe Steven Moffat.