Authors
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Jane Hardstaff
Jane Hardstaff longed to be an artist, but somehow became a TV producer. She grew up in Wiltshire with her brothers, hunting mayfly-nymphs with her father and reading fairytales with her mother. Now she lives in Londons East End, near the great, wild River Thames the inspiration for her first...
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Jane Simmons
Before Jane could walk she was painting and drawing. She cried after her first day at school because they hadn't taught her to read and write in one day. From then on she hasn't stopped. Jane moved with her family and many animals around the world, living in houses, flats and camper vans movin...
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Janey Louise Jones
Janey Louise Jones was born in Edinburgh. She and her sister Victoria grew up by the seaside in Musselburgh, East Lothian just outside Edinburgh. She fell in love with reading when she was very young, and adored listening to her mother reading traditional fairy stories like Cinderella a...
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Jason Wallace
Born in Cheltenham in 1969, I spent my earlier years growing up in south-west London until my family upped and packed for a new life in southern Africa. Specifically, in Zimbabwe, where I encountered a tough, but excellent boarding school and a world of fantastic experience. Descendent...
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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.
