Philippa Pearce
1920
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2006
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Cambridge, Girton College, Stephen Perse Foundation
occupation: children's writer
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE FRSL (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Best known of them is the time-slip novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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