![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was published By McClelland & Stewart in 1980 and won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. Tim Wynne-Jones' first book was Odd's End which is said to have been written over the space of five weeks while his wife was away. He is a faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaching in the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program. An additional formative experience was his participation in the St Matthew's Anglican Church choir of men and boys, of which he was for a time the Head Chorister. Wynne-Jones was educated at the University of Waterloo and Yale University, after having graduated from Ridgemont High School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Biography īorn on Augin Bromborough, Cheshire, Great Britain, Wynne-Jones emigrated to Canada in 1952, and was raised in British Columbia and Ontario. įor his contribution as a children's writer he was Canada's nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2012. Tim Wynne-Jones, OC (born 12 August 1948) is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto. ![]() English–Canadian author of children's literature ![]()
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