Authors Schools & Libraries
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Paul Howard
Paul Howard is a well-established illustrator with a history of successful picture books and has won numerous awards for his work. His picture books have included Jill Tomlinson's The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark, and a series of illustrated fiction titles, Bugville. Paul lives in Bel...
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Paul Stewart
Paul Stewart was born in 1955 in London and lived for a year in Muswell Hill before moving to Morden in Southwest London, 'the end of the Northern line'. He is a graduate of Lancaster University and of the University of East Anglia's creative writing course. For several years he taught...
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Pauline Chandler
Pauline Chandler was born in Nottinghamshire. In 2003 she was awarded the Arts Council England Writers' Award. It is an award that, over the years, has been given to writers such as Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Hughes, Ian McEwan, A S Byatt, Carol Ann Duffy, and Jim Crace. In total, pre...
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Pauline Francis
Pauline Francis has spent all her life with books: reading them, studying them (when she was at University), translating them (when she lived in Africa), teaching them (when she was a French teacher) and working with them (when she was a school librarian). So one day she thought: Id like to wr...
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Pete Johnson
Pete Johnson used to work as a film critic for Radio One as well as for his local paper. As a critic and member of the National Film Theatre he has interviewed a number of visiting stars such as Nicholas Cage, Melanie Griffith, James Stewart and Ingrid Bergman. Although no longer a crit...
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Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949 and was educated at Cambridge and Yale universities. He was literary editor of the Spectator for several years and chief book reviewer for The Times. He has published several volumes of poetry including The Diversions of Purley. His novels include The G...
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Peter Bently
Peter Bently went to ten different schools around the world, following his dad who was an army bandmaster and director of music. He studied languages at Oxford University and then worked for a short time as a journalist before moving into editing and sometimes writing books for adults. ...
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Peter Bunzl
Children's author Peter Bunzl grew up in South London in a rambling Victorian house. His father worked in antiques and his mother was a costume designer for film and television, so he got to see movies like Roger Rabbit being made and visited TV and film sets including James Bond and Postman P...
