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Kaye Umansky
Born an only child in Plymouth in 1946, Kaye Umansky grew up as the daughter of two teachers.Once Kaye left school, she became a teacher and taught in primary schools for a number of years. She enjoyed teaching the more creative subjects, like Drama and English, and reading to the...
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Ken Brown
Ken Brown is an award-winning author and illustrator, having created many picture books for Andersen Press. His books have been translated into many languages all over the world. He is married to fellow picture book illustrator Ruth Brown, and they have two sons.
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Ken Wilson-Max
Ken Wilson-Max was born in Zimbabwe in 1965. He studied art in Harare, Zimbabwe, before coming to England where he studied Design and Print Planning at the London College of Printing. He worked as a designer in both London and Zimbabwe. Ken has worked at Orchard Books and the BBC as a children...
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Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel was born on Vancouver Island, Canada and brought up on both coasts of Canada, east and west. He decided he wanted to be a writer when he was 12 and started out writing sci-fi epics inspired by his love of Star Wars. At 14 he wrote a humorous story called Colins Fantastic Video Ad...
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Keren David
Keren David's contemporary teen fiction draws on her long career as a journalist working for national newspapers. She started out as a teenage messenger girl, gave up a place at university to be an apprentice reporter, and eventually became a news editor and then a commissioning editor for com...
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Kes Gray
Kes Gray was born on 8 September 1960 in Chelmsford. He attended Great Baddow Comprehensive, gaining 6 O Levels and 3 A Levels, before going on to study for a B.A. Hons in English and American Literature at Kent University in Canterbury. He graduated with a 2:1. Kes has also got a Grade A Dipl...
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Kesia Lupo
By day, Kesia Lupo works as an editor for Chicken House, by night and the early hours of the morning she escapes into her very own fantasy world and writes. She studied history at Oxford University and creative writing at Bath Spa. Kesia lives in Bristol with her husband. We Are...
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Kevin Crossley-Holland
Kevin Crossley-Holland was born in 1941 and grew up in Buckinghamshire. He studied at Oxford University where he discovered a lifelong passion for myth and legend, and for Anglo-Saxon and medieval English. He worked in publishing for several years and has held a number of academic posts. Kevin...
