Michelle Magorian
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Michelle Magorian (born November 6, 1947) is an English author of children's books, including Goodnight Mr Tom, Back Home and A Little Love Song.
[edit] Biography
Michelle Magorian November 6, 1947, Southsea, Portsmouth. Her first ambition was to be an actress and after three years study at the Bruford College of Speech and Drama, she went to two years of Marcel Marceau's L'ecole Internationale de Mime in Paris. All this time she had been secretly writing stories and in her mid-twenties she became interested in children's books, and decided to write one herself.
The result was Goodnight Mister Tom, a winner of the Guardian Award and the International Reading Association Award, which she has also adapted as a musical. There is also a DVD. Since then she has published four more novels, two collections of poetry, a collection of short stories and two picture books.
[edit] Bibliography
- Goodnight Mister Tom (1981) (ISBN 0-06-440174-X)
- Back Home (1984) (ISBN 0-06-440411-0)
- Waiting for My Shorts to Dry (1989)
- Who's Going to Take Care of Me? (1990)
- Orange Paw Marks (1991)
- A Little Love Song (1991) (ISBN 0-7497-1061-6)
- In Deep Water (1992)
- Jump (1992)
- Not a Swan (1992)
- A Cuckoo in the Nest (1994)
- A Spoonful of Jam (1998)
- Be Yourself (2003)
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