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Geraldine
McCaughrean was born and educated in Enfield, North London,
the third and youngest child of a fireman and a teacher.
She attended Christ Church College of Education but instead
of teaching chose to work for a magazine publishing house.
Her favourite assignments included the best-selling children's
partworks Storyteller and Little Storyteller.
Only in 1988 did she become a full-time writer.
Since then, Geraldine has established herself as one of
the most exciting children's writer's today. Of her eight
novels published by Oxford University Press, seven have
won a major children's book award. Her recent novels, The
Kite Rider and Stop the Train were both shortlisted
for the Carnegie Medal 2001.
It is no wonder that McCaughrean is celebrated
as one of the greatest living children’s
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"I
took up writing as a child, for the fun of it," says
Geraldine, " - to go somewhere else and be someone
other than me. It's still my chief pleasure, and the thing
I want children to get from my books. If writing ever became
more laborious than that, then I don't think anyone would
enjoy reading what I wrote."
Geraldine
and her husband John live in Berkshire and have one twelve-year-old
daughter, Ailsa. In all, Geraldine has written over 100
books for both children and adults, as well as plays and
poetry, and has been published in 25 languages.
Profile
supplied by OUP - Last Updated June 2002
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