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Geraldine McCaughrean


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 authors..
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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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