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Humphrey Carpenter


(1946 - 2005)

Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies including, among others, those of J. R. R Tolkein, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten and Spike Milligan. From 1994-1996 he directed the Cheltenham Festival of Literature and for many years he ran a young people's drama group, the Mushy Pea Theatre Company. He wrote plays for radio and theatre and was a regular contributor to the Guardian. Humphrey died in January 2005.
 

Awards: SoA (1980)

Genres: Children's Fiction
 
Novels
   The Joshers (1977)
   The Captain Hook Affair (1979)
   Wellington and Boot (1991) (with Jenny McDade)
   Charlie Crazee's Teevee (1993)
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Awards
1980 Somerset Maugham Award : The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends


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