Frank Wilson (children's author)
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Frank Wilson (born 1948, Richard Frank Wilson, Bushey, Hertfordshire) is a children's writer and author of Gleda and the Sparkling-Cloth He retired from the National Probation Service in 2002 to concentrate on his writing.
[edit] Early Life, Writing Philosophy and Style
Frank Wilson grew up in Pinner, Middlesex, during the 1950's and he has described playing for hours in the nearby fields and woods - often ending up by himself and making up his own stories and characters as he went along. (Interview - James Nash, first published in The Leeds Guide 2005) Otherwise, he wrote - retreating into his own world of imagination, and he read avidly - especially Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack London, Daniel Defoe, Enid Blyton and Lewis Carroll. In his prose style, a number of reviewers have detected a moral tone similar to some of the classics of children's literature, and some have also noted that Lewis Carroll's world out of kilter never seems far away. For others, though, and for some children living in a very different world to the one he knew as a child, his writing seems overly intricate and difficult to access.
