Gillian Cross
Gillian Cross was born on the edge of London and grew up in a house full of books. She has been making up stories all her life. After studying at Oxford and Sussex universities, she began writing for children and her first books were published in 1979. Since then, she has had over forty other books published. She has been invited to countries all over the world to speak about her work and it has been translated into many languages.
Her novel Wolf won the Library Association’s Carnegie Medal for the best children’s book of 1990, and The Great Elephant Chase won both the Smarties Prize and the Whitbread Children’s Novel Award. Her Demon Headmaster books have been dramatized very successfully as a BBC television series and the first book has also been made into a play and a musical.
She travels throughout the UK, to talk to children, parents, librarians and teachers and she is passionate about the importance of libraries.
Gillian and her husband Martin live in Dorset and they have four grownup children.
