Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn

male, 62 years old
Literacy, Children's literature, Academic of the University of Teesside, University of Teesside, From rotherham, English…PenguinBooksLtd, penguin
Gervase Phinn (born 27 December 1946 in Rotherham, Yorkshire) is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools...
Lynley Dodd

Lynley Dodd

female, 68 years old
children's writer, Eve Sutton, Hairy Maclary, Elam School of Art, The Nickle Nackle Tree, My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes…children’s books, PenguinBooksLtd
Lynley Dodd is a prominent author of children’s books from New Zealand. She is best known for her “Hairy Maclary” series, and its follow-ups, all of...
John Gribbin

John Gribbin

male, 63 years old
Science writer, British, university of sussex, John R. Gribbin, scientist, University of Cambridge…PenguinBooksLtd
John R. Gribbin (b. 1946) is a British science writer and a visiting Fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex.
Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen

male, 63 years old
English, Michael Wayne Rosen, Old Fullerians, Children's Laureate, children's writer, Institute of Education…PenguinBooksLtd
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author...
John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich

male, 80 years old
The Norman in Sicily, The Norman in the South, Viscount in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Upper Canada College alumni, New College, Oxford, Alumni of New College, Oxford…PenguinBooksLtd
John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO (born 15 September 1929) is an English historian, travel writer and television personality known as...
Richard Sennett

Richard Sennett

male, 66 years old
London School of Economics, New York Institute for the Humanities, Royal Society of Literature, stuttgart, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academic of the London School of Economics…PenguinBooksLtd
Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the...
Prue Leith

Prue Leith

female, 69 years old
South African, Leaving Patrick, Caterer, Ashridge, Whitbread PLC, Order of the British Empire…Penguin Books, PenguinBooksLtd
Prue Leith OBE, Founder, Leith School of Wine Prue Leiths name is synonymous with fine food. She has been a TV-cook, broadcaster, columnist,...

Richard Ollard

male, deceased (2007)
historian, English Restoration, Old Etonian, Biographer, Alumni of New College, Oxford, English…penguin, PenguinBooksLtd
Richard Ollard (1923-2007) was an English historian and biographer. He is best known for his work on the English Restoration period.
Simon Tolkien

Simon Tolkien

male, 50 years old
Old Gregorian, Old Dragon, The Stepmother, PenguinBooksLtd, Dragon School, Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Simon Tolkien (born 1959) is a British barrister and novelist. He is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien. Simon Tolkien is the eldest son of...

Chris Patten

European Commissioner, governor, Balliol College, PenguinBooksLtd, Chairman of the Conservative Party, Conservative Research Department
Chris Patten Chris Patten is one of Britain’s most respected political figures. After reading Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, he be...