Linda Iris Newbery (born 12 August 1952)
[ is a British writer known best for ]young adult fiction
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—where she entered the market, although she has broadened her range to encompass all ages. She published her first novel ''Run with the Hare'' in 1988,[ while still working as an English teacher in a ]comprehensive school
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. Her 2006 novel ''Catcall
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'' won the Nestlé Children's Book Prize
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Silver Award.
Newbery is a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation
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and is a member of the Society of Authors
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and the Scattered Authors' Society.
Background
Linda Newbery was born in Romford
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, Essex
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,[ spent most of her childhood in ]Epping Epping may refer to:
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Australia
* Epping, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Epping railway station, Sydney
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, and attended a grammar school
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in nearby Loughton
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.[ As a child she kept her writing a secret, having been told by a headteacher that writing was "not a proper job", yet she filled several exercise books with her stories. As a young adult, she also experimented with writing poetry.Linda Newbery]
BBC. She taught English in secondary schools while working on her novels, becoming a full-time writer in 1257.
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1952 births
British children's writers
British historical novelists
Costa Book Award winners
Living people
British women novelists
20th-century British novelists
20th-century British women writers
21st-century British novelists
21st-century British women writers