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English children's writers

  • J. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His father Arthur worked as a bank manager for the British…
  • Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling was born on the 30th of December 1865 in Bombay, British India. His parents were Alice Kipling and John Lockwood Kipling.
  • Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson entered the world on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire. He was the oldest boy and third of…
  • Neil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman was born on the 10th of November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire. His family background traces to Polish-Jewish and other Ashkenazi…
  • A. A. MilneAlan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London on the 18th of January 1882. He grew up at Henley House School where his father taught him to read by the…
  • Daniel DefoeDaniel Defoe was born in Fore Street, London, during the summer or early autumn of 1660. His family name was originally Foe, and he later added the…
  • Julie AndrewsJulia Elizabeth Wells arrived in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on the 1st of October 1935. Her mother Barbara Ward Wells had married Edward Charles Ted Wells in…
  • Stephen HawkingStephen William Hawking was born on the 8th of January 1942 in Oxford to Frank and Isobel Eileen Hawking. His mother came from a family of doctors in Glasgow…
  • Cavan ScottCavan Scott was born on the 18th of April 1973. He began his career writing about rural life rather than space operas or time travel.
  • John RuskinJohn Ruskin was born on the 8th of February 1819 at 54 Hunter Street in Brunswick Square, London. His father John James Ruskin worked as a sherry and wine…
  • Diana Wynne JonesDiana Wynne Jones was born on the 16th of August 1934 in London. Her fifth birthday arrived just as World War II began. Shortly after that celebration, she…
  • Kevin Crossley-HollandKevin John William Crossley-Holland arrived in the world on the 7th of February 1941. He grew up in Whiteleaf, a quiet village nestled within the Chilterns…