Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in

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) is a British author who wrote a series of novels about the headmaster of a school in a fictional

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village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time. He grew up in

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in Leeds, trained as a teacher at

St John's College, York , mottoeng = They may have life and have it more abundantly , established = , type = Public , administrative_staff = 618 , chancellor = Reeta Chakrabarti , vice_chancellor = Professor Karen Bryan , student ...

and later became head teacher of two schools in

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and then senior lecturer in primary education at

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. He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel ''Teacher, Teacher!'' sold 100,000 copies. In 2016 he was awarded the honorary title of Cultural Fellow of York St John University.

Books

*''Teacher, Teacher!'' (2007) *''Mister Teacher'' (2008) *''Dear Teacher'' (2009) *''Village Teacher'' (2010) *''Please Sir!'' (2011) *''Educating Jack'' (2012) *''School's Out'' (2013) *''Silent Night'' (2013) *''Star Teacher'' (2015) *''Happiest Days'' (2017) *''Starting Over'' (2018) * Changing Times (2019) * "Back To School" (2020) * "School Days" (2021) * "Last day of School" (2022)

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English male novelists Living people 1945 births Writers from Leeds Writers about Yorkshire {{UK-writer-stub