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Malorie Blackman was born in 1962. She qualified in Computer Science and followed a successful career in computing, before becoming a writer at the age of 28. Her first published...
Robyn Bolam (formerly published as Marion Lomax) was born in Newcastle in 1953 and grew up in Northumberland in the north of England. Educated at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic and...
William Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, on 7 March 1952. He was educated at Gordonstoun School, Glasgow University and Jesus College, Oxford. His first novel, A Good Man in...
Broadcaster, writer and novelist Melvyn Bragg was born on 6 October, 1939 in Wigton, Cumbria, in the north of England. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read...
Jean 'Binta' Breeze was born in Jamaica in 1957. She studied at the Jamaican School of Drama with Michael Smith and Oku Onuora. A 'dub' poet, she began to write...
Theresa Breslin is the critically acclaimed author of over 30 books whose work has been filmed for television and dramatised on radio. Her prizewinning books are in translation in a...
Simon Brett was born in Surrey and studied English at Oxford University. He worked as a producer in radio and television for some years, and in 1979 became a full-time...
Raymond Briggs was born in London in 1934, and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Art, London. His first work was in advertising, but he...
One of South Africa's most distinguished writers, André Brink was born in 1935. Poet, novelist, essayist and teacher, he began work as a University lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature...
Novelist Christopher Brookmyre was born in Glasgow on 6 September 1968 and educated at Glasgow University. He has worked for the film magazine Screen International , and as sub-editor for...
Kevin Brooks was born in 1959, grew up in Devon and now lives in North Yorkshire. He studied psychology and philosophy at Birmingham Aston University, and Cultural Studies in London,...
Poet Alan Brownjohn was born in London on 28 July 1931 and was educated at Merton College, Oxford. He worked as a schoolteacher between 1957 and 1965 and lectured at...
Ron Butlin was born in 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh (1982 and 1985),...
Dame A(ntonia) S(usan) Byatt was born on 24 August 1936 in Yorkshire. She was educated at a Quaker school in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania,...
Poet and novelist Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1948. After graduating from Queen's University, Belfast, he worked for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland until 1998....
Anthony Cartwright was born in Dudley, West Midlands, in 1973. He studied English and American literature at the University of East Anglia, and teaches at the Royal Docks Community School...
Jim Cartwright was born in Farnworth, Lancashire in 1958 and educated at Harper Green Secondary Modern School, Farnworth. His plays are consistently performed around the world, where they have won...
Anne Cassidy was born in London in 1952, and worked for some years as a teacher, before becoming a full-time writer. She specializes in crime stories and thrillers for teenagers,...
Aidan Chambers was born in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, in 1934. In 1953 after undergoing National Service, he trained to become a teacher and worked at Westcliff High School for Boys...
Lauren Child was born in 1967 and grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire. She studied Art at Manchester Polytechnic and London Art School, after which she worked in a variety of...
Playwright Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where...
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1965, poet Kate Clanchy was educated in Edinburgh and Oxford. She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Oxford where she...
Richard Collins lives near Aberystwyth and has worked as a farm labourer, gardener and estate worker. He teaches at the Institute of Rural Sciences in Llanbadarn. His first novel, The...
Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow and grew up in Ayrshire. After studying at the University of Glasgow, he joined BBC Scotland, eventually becoming Senior Radio Drama Producer, a position...
Julia Copus is a poet and radio dramatist. She was born in London in 1969, and studied Latin at Durham University, winning an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in...
Charlotte Cory was born in 1956 in Bristol, England. She read English at the University of Bristol and studied for a D.Phil. in Medieval English at the University of York....
Novelist Jim Crace was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1946 and was brought up in north London. He read English Literature as an external student at London University and worked...
Poet, novelist and playwright Fred D'Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He lived in Guyana until he was 12, returning to England in 1972. He trained...
Toni Davidson was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1965. He is the editor of two anthologies of short stories, And Thus Will I Freely Sing: An Anthology of Lesbian and...
Peter Ho Davies was born in 1966 to Welsh and Chinese parents. He has degrees in Physics and English, and was awarded an MA in Creative Writing from Boston University....
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