Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the

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of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling. Diane Purkiss is a

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in English at

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, and she is the first Oxford English faculty member since

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and

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlins ...

to publish a children's book. Michael Dowling is Diane Purkiss' son. He is one of the subjects of the ongoing

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documentary series, '' Child Genius''.Daily Telegraph 10 February 2007Sunday Times 17 December 2006
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Bibliography

* ''

Corydon and the Island of Monsters ''Corydon and the Island of Monsters'' is the first instalment of the Corydon Trilogy, penned by Tobias Druitt; a pseudonym for a mother-son writing combination. It was published in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster in 2005, and in the Unit ...

'' (2005) * '' Corydon and the Fall of Atlantis'' (2006) * '' Corydon and the Siege of Troy'' (2007)

Footnotes

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