Authors Families
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Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964 to a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and was a teacher for 15 years, during which time she published three novels; The Evil Seed (1989), Sleep, Pale Sister (1993) an...
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Joe Berger
Joe Berger is a children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist. In 2011 he was a winner of Booktrust's Best New Illustrators Award. He also makes prize-winning animated short films and title sequences and is co-creator of the Berger and Wyse food cartoon.
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Joe Craig
Joe studied Philosophy at Cambridge University (Emmanuel College), graduating in 2002. While there he wrote and performed with the Cambridge Footlights and co-hosted a radio show. He first considered writing as a career in 2003, when he developed the idea for the 'Jimmy Coates' series. ...
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Joe Donnelly
Joe Donnelly is a former journalist who lives in the west of Scotland. As a journalist, he won many awards including, Reporter Of The Year, Consumer Journalist Of The Year, and Campaigning Journalist Of The Year. He investigated fraud, criminals, bent coppers, crooked lawyers and shady politic...
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John Burningham
John Burningham was born in Farnham, Surrey in 1936 and attended the alternative education establishment, Summerhill in Suffolk, where lessons are not compulsory. At the age of 17, he became a conscientious objector, and avoided military service by joining the Friends Ambulance Unit. Th...
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John Connolly
John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City Un...
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John Dougherty
Born in Northern Ireland, John Dougherty now lives in Gloucestershire, where he spends a lot of time in his shed thinking up ideas. He held a variety of jobs, from factory machine operator to teacher, before the publication of his first book and his subsequent writing career. He very mu...
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John McNally
John McNally found himself in a series of dead-end jobs until, ten years ago, he found himself in screen writing and has since worked with Aardman, Sony and the BBC. INFINITY DRAKE is his first novel and was written for his children (who, of course, knew nothing about it). Once it sold to a pu...
