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(a.k.a.
Mayne, William James Carter
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Born: 16 Mar 1928 Hull, Yorkshire, England
Died: Mar 2010
Gender: Male
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Arrived in Australia: 1976
Departed from Australia: 1976
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: William Mayne, 'widely admired and unconventional British children's author' according to the Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (1984), was the eldest of the five children of a doctor. From 1937 until 1942 he was a student and choirboy at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School after which his education continued in an irregular fashion until 1945. He had written a novel by the age of sixteen and soon decided on a literary career. His first published children's book appeared in 1953 and contin....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
Last amended:
18 May 2010