British children's author Michelle Magorian - author of the celebrated
Goodnight, Mr. Tom (1981), which won
The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize - was born in Southsea, Portsmouth, in 1947. She trained to be an actress, studying at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, and at Marcel Marceau's L'école Internationale de Mime in Paris. While pursuing an acting career, Magorian became interested in children's books, writing her first novel for young readers (
Goodnight, Mr. Tom) over the co…
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