Authors Families
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Kjartan Poskitt
Kjartan Poskitt, best known as the author of the Murderous Maths books, was born and now lives in Yorkshire. Kjartan had always wanted to be a performer and while he was studying at Durham university he started writing plays and songs, and then wrote for television programmes. In 1990 h...
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Korky Paul
Early Years and beyondKorky Paul was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951. He studied art at the Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years working for an advertising agency in Cape Town. In 1976 as Korky puts it he "fled for Europe" and got a job illustrating and...
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Kris Humphrey
Kris grew up in Plymouth, where he spent most of his time reading books, riding around on his bike and daydreaming about writing a book himself one day. Since then, Kris has had more jobs than he cares to think about. He has been a cinema projectionist, a bookseller and a blood factory...
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Kristyna Litten
Kristyna studied Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated in 2010 and was awarded Silver for AOI Best of British illustration in 2012. She now lives in a beautiful village in Yorkshire where she is heavily reliant on the good old pencil and a great big cup of tea to keep her goin...
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Adele Geras
Adle Geras was born in Jerusalem in 1944. She was educated at Roedean School, Brighton, and St. Hilda's College, Oxford, where she studied Modern Languages. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1976 she was a singer, an actress and a French teacher. Adele says that she writes, entirely...
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Ahmet Zappa
Ahmet Zappa is the son of rock legend Frank Zappa. He's a well-known TV personality in the States, and lives in the Hollywood Hills with his one-eyed dog, Wink. Growing up in the Zappa household, Ahmet was always convinced the bogeyman was out to get him. He struggled with learning difficultie...
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Aidan Chambers
'I will not write books that sell young people short. What I write is intended to make people think.' Aidan Chambers was born in Chester-le-Street in 1934 and moved to Darlington when he was ten. He started wr...
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AG Taylor
Although he is now based in Melbourne, Australia, A. G. Taylor was born in New Zealand but grew up in Norfolk, England. He studied English Literature at Sheffield, then completed a teaching course at Cambridge University and has spent the last 10 years teaching. Writing a book has always been...
