Philippa Pearce
Writer, Author
1920 – 2006
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Who was Philippa Pearce?
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was four times a commended runner up for the Medal.
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- Born
- Jan 22, 1920
Great Shelford - Also known as
- Ann Philippa Pearce
- Parents
- Spouses
- Martin Christie
(1962 - 1964)
- Martin Christie
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Girton College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Dec 21, 2006
Durham
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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