Biographies Children’s Books
Any ideas on a really inspiring biography for an aspiring children’s writer? Preferably a UK book.?
Hi,
For mothers day I want to buy my mum either an inspiring biography from a fellow writer who struggled and made it or a book to help her get published again (she has had books published in the past, but struggling now). She already has the writers year book.
Thanks
Sorry, or autobiography
http://www.amazon.com
Your question led me to immediately think of E. Nesbit, a UK author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who wrote great children’s book so well, they’re still kept in the home libraries of my offspring and me. They’ve even inspired names of pets and more.
Searching for a “biography or memoir” at Amazon, I saw these: They both look good…
-”Long Ago When I Was Young” by E. Nest
…said by Publishers Weekly to be “…the only autobiography of an author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It…in novella form …a generous and sympathetic look at …memories of boarding school and French Lessons…”
It was published by Dial Publishers in 1988 and is 127 pages long.
There may be more forms of this now but not seen at Amazon.
-A biography was written about Nesbit too, by Julia Briggs.
I found it in many forms (always with this similar title) …a hardcover from ‘88 and a paperback from ‘93…
“A Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit 1858-1925″…
… also called “Woman of Passion: The Life of E. Nesbit” both by Julia Briggs.
Carmen Agra Deedy – 2009 National Book Festival
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