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Leon Garfield
AuthorBooks · Second hand1921-1996
Leon Garfield FRSL was a British author. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. His retellings of Shakespeare for young readers were published as Shakespeare Stories. He wrote an ending for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left unfinished at the death of Charles Dickens. Garfield won the inaugural Guardian Prize for Devil-in-the-Fog and the Carnegie Medal for The God Beneath the Sea, a retelling of Greek mythology cowritten with Edward Blishen..
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Birth
1921
Death
1996
First book
1970
Years writing
56
Leon Garfield was a prolific British author who wrote over one hundred works throughout his career.
His children's novels are characterized by being set in the turbulent historical context of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Garfield's narrative style was significantly influenced by literary masters such as Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Although he began by writing for adults, his first book was adapted for children after an editor recognized its great potential.
His stories often feature protagonists of humble origins who find themselves caught up in dangerous historical intrigues.