Authors Schools & Libraries
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Jean Ure
JEAN URE was born in Caterham, Surrey and brought up in Harrow and then Croydon. She started writing when she was about six and has never stopped. Her teenage years were almost entirely devoted to writing, reading, listening to music, playing cricket and attempting to teach herself ballet. She...
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Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England, and adopted by Pentecostal parents who brought her up in the nearby mill-town of Accrington. As a Northern working class girl she was not encouraged to be clever. Her adopted father was a factory worker, her mother stayed at home. Ther...
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Jeanne Birdsall
Jeanne Birdsall lives in Massachusetts in the US, with her husband, four cats, a rabbit, a pet snail, and a dog called Cagney. She says 'By the time I was ten or eleven, I'd run out of books to read. Each week I'd go to the library hoping that one of my favourite authors had written som...
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Jeanne Willis
Jeanne Willis is one of our best-loved authors of children's books, and has written for television, although her earlier jobs have included being a reptile vet's assistant, and working in an advertising agency. She has two children.
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Jeff Giles
Jeff Giles grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Most recently, he was the deputy managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, where he oversaw all coverage of movies and books, including the magazine's championing of YA fiction. Jeff has written for Rolling Stone and the New York Times Books...
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Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney is the author of the bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Diary of a Wimpy Kid was his debut novel and the comic adventures of his protagonist, Greg Heffley, began online in 2004 on funbrain.com where almost 100,000 children read about him every day. To date the series has sold...
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Jeff Povey
Author Jeff Povey is an award-winning screenwriter. As well as several original TV dramas and feature films he has also written over 150 episodes of Eastenders and for Casualty, Holby, Grange Hill and Silent Witness as well as co-creating the recent By Any Means. Shift is his debut teen novel....
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Jem Packer
Jem Packer creates books with his other creative half, Duncan McCoshan (Knife). Together they are a creative team who bring a distinctive humour, style and and imagination to both fiction and non-fiction. Their popular cartoon strip 'It's Grim up North London' first appeared in Private Eye in...
