Authors

Hale, Lucretia P.

Lucretia Peabody Hale (1820-1900) was descended from two of New England's most illustrious families and grew up surrounded by Boston's nineteenth-century intelligentsia. Her father, Nathan Hale, was publisher of The Boston Daily Advertiser, her uncle Edward Everett was a United States Senator and later president of Harvard; and her brother Edward Everett Hale was a well-known Unitarian clergyman and abolitionist. .....

Hall, Oakley

Oakley Hall was born in 1920 in San Diego and grew up there and in Honolulu, where his mother moved after his parents' divorce. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, Hall joined the Marine Corps and was stationed in the Pacific during the Second World War. Following the war, and with the aid of the GI Bill, he continued his studies in France, Switzerland, and England, returning to the US to receive an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. .....

Hall, S. M.

As well as writing for teens, S. M. HALL is a journalist whose work included a column for the Guardian when she was living in the States. She has taught speech and drama and was recently involved in staging a musical in Qatar. She has recently become custodian of Sir Paul McCartney's childhood home in Liverpool for the National Trust. Her husband, who was in the rock business, is custodian of John Lennon's childhood home. .....

Halligan, Jim

Handa, Rumiko

Associate Professor Rumiko Handa, BArch University of Tokyo, MArch, MS Arch, Ph.D University of Pennsylvania

Hannigan, Dave

Dave Hannigan is a sports columnist with The Sunday Tribune, the Evening Echo and New York's Irish Echo.

He is the author of three previous books and is also an adjunct professor of history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island.

Harbison, Peter

Dr Peter Harbison, a noted academic and author who has made a close study of the work of Cooper, has provided extended captions and quotes from Cooper's own diaries.

Harbison, Robert

Robert Harbison teaches at London Metropolitan University, where he heads the MA in Architectural History, Theory and Interpretation. He is the author of many books on architecture and wider cultural themes, including Eccentric Spaces, The Built the Unbuilt and the Unbuildable, Reflections on Baroque and a forthcoming History of Western Architecture.

Harding, Roger

Roger Harding is Director of the GATL, a body providing membership, educational outreach and gem testing services. He was curator of gemstones at the Museum, from 1972-90.

Hardwick, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Hardwick (b. 1916) has been a frequent contributor to The Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books, which she helped found in 1963. Her books include the novels The Simple Truth, The Ghostly Lover, and Sleepless Nights, the essay collection A View of My Own, and The Selected Letters of William James, for which she acted as editor.

Hardy, Peter

Peter Hardy edited The High Places in 2008. And anthology of Harry Griffin's articles for the Lancashire Evening Post.

Harkin, Greg

Greg Harkin is the Belfast journalist who broke the Stakeknife story.

Harman, Claire

Claire Harman's first book, a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner, was published in 1989 and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She has since published biographies of Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson and edited works by Stevenson and Warner. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.

Harpur, Jerry

Jerry Harpur photographs gardens and plants all over the world. He has contributed pictures to well over three hundred books and won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Garden Writers' Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. He has a special interest in international garden design, which he has spent years photographing and researching.

Harris, Nicholas

Nicholas Harris is a prolific non-fiction writer and is the head of Orpheus Books.

Harris, Sue

Sue Harris is educated in architecture, welfare work and language in Sydney and Canada where she lived and worked for many years. Sue has spent most of her career working with architects specializing in managing and administering the process.

Harss, Marina

Marina Harss is a translator and dance writer in New York City. Recent translations include Elizabeth Subercaseaux's A Week in October, Alberto Moravia's Conjugal Love and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Stories From the City of God.

Harte, Paddy

Born in Lifford, County Donegal, Harte was elected to Donegal County Council in 1960 and to Dáil Eireann in 1961, where he served until 1997. He was Minister of State at the Department of Posts & Telegraphs as well as being Spokesman on Northern Ireland. He has won many awards for his work, including The European Person Of The Year, 1998.

Harvey, Roland

Roland Harvey is one of Australia's best-loved illustrators. His books include At the Beach, In the Bush and In the City and the Bonnie & Sam series - The Horses and Ponies of Currawong Creek, in collaboration with Alison Lester.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, he returned to Salem, where he wrote historical sketches and allegorical tales, as well as a novel, Fanshawe, which was published anonymously in 1828. Hawthorne's first book of stories, Twice-Told Tales, appeared in 1837. His marriage to Sophia Peabody, in 1842, led to a move to Concord, after which he wrote the stories gathered in Mosses from an Old Manse and The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales, and the novels The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance. .....

Hayden, Edward

EDWARD HAYDEN works in Dunbrody House with celebrity chef, Kevin Dundon, where he is director and instructor of Dunbrody Cookery School. He also teaches adult education courses in Waterford Institute of Technology. His first cookery book, Edward Entertains, was published in 2008.

Hayes, Alfred

Alfred Hayes (1911–1985) was an American journalist, poet, screenwriter, and novelist. Having served in Italy during World War II, he stayed on to co-write several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini’s Paisà and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, as well as to gather material for his two most popular novels, All Thy Conquests and The Girl on the Via Flaminia (the basis for the 1953 film Act of Love, starring Kirk Douglas). .....

Hayes, Paddy

PADDY HAYES is a writer and film-maker with his own production company, Flutterby Films, based in Galway. Most of his work is made for TG4, Irish-language TV, for whom his latest venture is a six-part series based on the escapes covered in this book. He has previously worked for the Irish Film Board and lectures in scriptwriting in the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Hayes, Tadhg

Tadhg Hayes lives and works in Kerry, one of the richest sources of 'the Gab' in the country.

Hayes-McCoy, Felicity

Felicity Hayes-McCoy has written television dramas, radio soap operas, features, documentaries, plays and screenplays, as well as books on fairytales, myths and legends.

Hazard, Paul

Paul Hazard (1878–1944) was an eminent French historian of ideas and a pioneering scholar of comparative literature. After teaching at the University of Lyon and the Sorbonne, he was appointed to the chair of comparative literature at the Collège de France in 1925. Elected to the French Academy in 1939, in January 1941 he voluntarily returned from a semester of teaching at Columbia University to Nazi-occupied France, where he continued to teach and write. .....

Hazen, Lynn E.

Lynn E. Hazen completed her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College, where she won the Houghton Mifflin Award for Shifty. She also has an M.A. in Education, and a B.S. in Applied Behavioral Sciences. Her second children's book is a picture book, Buzz Bumble to the Rescue. Lynn lives with her family in Northern California. Inspiration often comes from her own children as well as the exuberant children she encounters in her job as a preschool director.

Heald, Tim

Tim Heald has worked as a journalist on many newspapers, and has written over thirty books, fiction and non-fiction, including crime novels, and biographies. He lives in Fowey, Cornwall.

Healy, Shay

SHAY HEALY is an author, songwriter, TV producer and presenter. His RTÉ 1 pet series, Beastly Behaviour, was a big hit with audiences old and young. He also released a CD of animal songs, Havananimal Week. Shay is best known as the writer of What's Another Year, which won the Eurovision Song Contest for Johnny Logan in 1980.

Heaney, Seamus

Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Heathcote, Edwin

Edwin Heathcote is the architecture correspondent for the Financial Times. He is the author of Contemporary Church Architecture, London Caffs and Furniture + Architecture of which Blueprint wrote “Occasionally you come across a book that does everything it claims – and then some. This is one”

Hedges, Mark

Hegley, John

JOHN HEGLEY was born in north London and brought up in Luton. He now lives in Islington. His eight collections of adult verse have mostly been published by Methuen, and he has two children’s books in print: My Dog is a Carrot, (2002, reissued 2007 Walker) and Monsieur Robinet, a dual-language storybook, pub Donut Press. He started out as a stand-up comedian/poet, performing his work on the festival and comedy circuit and he became something of a cult performer from the early 80s onwards. .....

Heilmeyer, Marina

Marina Heilmeyer has long been associated with the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum in Berlin. She has organised several garden-related exhibitions and is the author of a number of books on flowers and fruits.

Heller, Steven

Steven Heller is the art director of The New York Times Book Review and is the author or editor of more than eighty books on design.

Hennelly, Regina

Regina Hennelly is a journalist and writes for The Examiner and The Irish Independent. She has reported extensively on the Barr tribunal which was set up to investigate the Abbeylara shooting.

Hennessy, Marie

Marie Hennessy was born in Co. Kilkenny and now lives in Dublin. She is a professional artist specialising in oil paintings.

Marie's online gallery is at www.irelandpainted.com

Herbert, Robert L.

Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. .....

Herrick, Steven

Steven Herrick was born in Brisbane, the youngest of seven children. At school his favourite subject was soccer, and he dreamed of football glory while he worked at various jobs, including fruit picking. Now he writes for children and teenagers and visits many schools each year. He loves talking to the students and their teachers about poetry and soccer. He lives in the Blue Mountains with his wife and two sons. .....

Herrington, Richard

Richard Herrington joined the Department of Mineralogy at The Natural History Museum, London as a researcher in 1991, after working in mineral exploration in industry for a number of years. Since then, gold has been a major focus of his research, based on linking geological processes with the formation of economic gold deposits.

Herron, Anne Marie

Anne Marie Herron is the principal of a large primary school. She presents a weekly radio review programme on children's books.

Heslewood, Juliet

Juliet Heslewood studied the History of Art at London University and later gained an MA in English Literature at Toulouse. For over twenty-five years she lived in France where she devised and led study tours on art and architecture as well as continuing her writing career. Her books include The History of Western Painting for young people which was translated into twelve languages. She also wrote its companion on sculpture and Introducing Picasso. .....

Hick, Gillian

Gillian Hick was born in Dublin and has practised as a vet both in Dublin and in Wicklow for the past seven years. She also works for the Irish Blue Cross. She lives in Co. Wicklow, where she has her own practice, with her husband, three children, and a large assortment of four-legged companions.

Hickmott, Simon

SIMON HICKMOTT has been interested in growing plants since he was a boy, and has since made a career out of growing the weird and the wonderful. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the tropical section, growing exotic plants under glass. He also run a seed library at the Henry Doubleday Research Association, growing and distributing hundreds of rare and endangered vegetable varieties. .....

Highet, Gilbert

Gilbert Highet (1906-1978) was a professor at both Oxford and Columbia. In the 1950s he hosted a radio program called People, Places and Books, which was carried by more than two hundred radio stations, and was a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. He served as a literary critic for Harper's Magazine during the early 1950s and was the author of more than a dozen books, including works on literary history, essays, poems, and criticism.

Hill, David

David Hill, born in 1942, is a versatile journalist, reviewer, fiction writer, playwright and children’s writer. Born and educated in Napier and a graduate of Victoria University, he spent 14 years secondary school teaching before writing full-time. He has contributed stories, articles, reviews and plays to newspapers, radio and most New Zealand journals, including Landfall, NZ Listener and School Journal, as well as overseas. .....

Hill, Fionna

FIONNA HILL trained as a floral designer in London and now runs her own floral design business. She has always used vegetables decoratively in her designs and has now turned to growing them to eat. Living in a high-rise apartment, Fionna discovered microgreens are ideal for those with limited space who still want to eat fresh. She has written four books, including the internationally successful Country Style Flowers. .....

Hinchcliffe, Tanis

Tanis Hinchcliffe teaches in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster. She is also the author of North Oxford.

Hinkley, Daniel J.

Daniel J. Hinkley writes for numerous horticultural publications and is in high demand as a speaker throughout North America and Europe. He has been awarded the Scott Gold Medal, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Award, and the Veitch Memorial Medal, among others. He serves as chief consultant to Monrovia Nursery.

Hinwood, Christine

Christine Hinwood prefers to be called Christine, rather than Chris. She prefers cold to hot weather, likes coffee and chocolate and dislikes exercise. She's worked all kinds of strange jobs, most of which don't appear on her CV. She lives in the inner city, and wants it that way, but enjoys fantasising about country life. She doesn't understand what the thing about chickens is, and although she hasn't owned any, she likes the idea.

Hirsch, Odo

Odo Hirsch was born and grew up in Melbourne where he trained to be a doctor. He now lives in London and writes excellent books that are published not only in Australia but also in the US, UK, Netherlands, Korea, Germany and Italy. His other titles are Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp (9781741753011) and Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool (9781741757163).

Hirst, Robin

Robin Hirst was appointed Director of the Melbourne Planetarium with Museum Victoria in 1981. He is currently Director, Collections Research and Exhibitions for Museum Victoria, Australia's largest museum organisation.

Hirst, Sally

Sally Hirst is a Director of a consultancy company that solves problems, develops business ideas and marketing plans for Australian museums, galleries, libraries, parks and gardens.

Hitchens, Christopher

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and a visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School.

Hoare, Ben

Hoban, Russell

Russell Hoban is the author of A Bargain for Frances, A Baby Sister for Frances, Best Friends for Frances, A Birthday for Frances, and Bread and Jam for Frances, all illustrated by Lillian Hoban. He also wrote Bedtime for Frances, illustrated by Garth Williams. He lives in London, England.

Hobbs, Leigh

Leigh Hobbs is an artist, painter, sculptor, cartoonist, children's book illustrator and author. He is also an experienced teacher and lecturer at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. Leigh has illustrated many children's books, and is best known for the Old Tom series of books which he wrote and illustrated.

Hobhouse, Janet

Janet Hobhouse (1948–1991) was raised in New York City and educated at Oxford. She lived in London and New York and was the author of two works of non-fiction, The Bride Stripped Bare, a study of the female nude in art, and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein, and four novels, Nellie Without Hugo, Dancing in the Dark, November, and The Furies, which was published after her death from ovarian cancer at the age of forty-two.

Hobson, Charlotte

Hochbaum, Susan

Susan Hochbaum is a nationally recognized graphic designer who has co-authored and designed books on photography and visual culture. Her most recent, Black and White, is a visual compendium and graphic essay of all things black-and-white, from penguins to nuns' habits and skeletons to 8-balls. Other books she has designed include HiFis & HiBalls, A Stiff Drink and a Close Shave, and Neal Slavin's Britons. .....

Hochschild, Adam

Adam Hochschild has written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and The Nation. His books include King Leopold's Ghost, a National Books Critics Circle Award finalist and and winner of Mark Lynton History Prize, and Bury the Chains, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for history and the PEN USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction. .....

Hof, Marjolijn

Marjolijn Hof, formerly a children's librarian, always dreamed of being a writer. When her first novel, Against the Odds (Een kleine kans), was published, it was met with high critical acclaim, winning three major Dutch and Flemish children's book prizes - the Golden Owl Juvenile Literature Prize, the Golden Owl Young Readers' Prize and the Golden Slate Pencil - and it has been translated into at least nine languages. .....

Hoffman, Michael

Michael Hofmann is a poet. He is the translator of nine books by Joseph Roth and was awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for translating The String of Pearls. He is also the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen’s two novels The Hothouse and A Sad Affair.

Hofmann, Michael

Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator. He has translated nine books by Joseph Roth and was awarded the PEN translation prize for String of Pearls. He lives in London.

Hofstadter, Dan

Dan Hofstadter's last book was The Love Affair as a Work of Art, a study of French writers. Falling Palace, about daily life in contemporary Naples, was published in 2005.

Hogg, James

James Hogg (1770-1835) was born in the Ettrick Valley in the Scottish Borders. When he was seven, his father, a sheep farmer, went bankrupt and Hogg left school hardly able to read; he could only shape letters "nearly an inch in length," he wrote later in his autobiography. For many years, he worked as a cowherd and later as a shepherd. His mother, however, steeped him in ballads and folklore, and his grandfather was apparently the last man to talk with the fairies. .....

Holdsworth, May

May Holdsworth was born in Shanghai and educated in Hong Kong, Malaysia and England. She has been writing about China since 1979, and lives in Hong Kong.

Holland, Anne

Anne Holland was a successful amateur rider who once rode at Aintree on Grand National day.
She has written many books on horse-racing including Steeplechasing: A Celebration, The Grand National: The Irish At Aintree and All in the Blood.

Holland, Julian

Julian Holland trained as an artist at Cheltenham College of Art before going on to study graphic design, illustration and photography. He fell into a career in publishing when he was offered his first job as a book designer for Readers Digest, followed by stints as a magazine designer before ending up as a designer and art editor for Dorling Kindersley. From 1977 Julian was involved in freelance book design and book packaging, until a close brush with the grim reaper in 2004 inspired him to change his career and become a full-time author and photographer, concentrating on his two favourite subjects of islands and railways.

Holliday, Christopher

Christopher Holliday holds a NCCPG collection of phormiums in the UK. His articles have been published in many gardening magazines. His garden in Cumbria has been featured in newspapers, magazines and books aswell as in Gardener's World on BBC television. He is press officer to the National Gardens Schemes in Cumbria. Image © Marcus Harpur

Hollingdale, R.J.

Hollinghurst, Alan

Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Spell, and the forthcoming The Line of Beauty, as well as of a translation of the play Bajazet by Racine. A former staff member at The Times Literary Supplement, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including The Guardian. .....

Holloway, Simon

Hollyer, Belinda

Belinda Hollyer was born in New Zealand. She has lived in the Lebanon and Australia, and frequently visits the USA, but now lives mostly in London. She has spent much of her adult life enjoying some combination of children and books - as a teacher, a teacher-librarian and a book publisher - and now writes fulltime (mostly for children). Recent titles include VOTES FOR WOMEN (non-fiction, Scholastic), and SHE'S ALL THAT! (poetry anthology, Kingfisher) which has been selected by Child Education & Junior Education as one of the "Best Books of the Year" and by the American Library Association as a "Children's Notable Book". .....

Holmes, Richard

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). .....

Hopwood, Rosalind

Rosalind Hopwood is an art historian with a special interest in fountains and water features. After 20 years of teaching she gained a PhD with a thesis on the Origins of the Renaissance Figure Fountain, which involved extensive travel in Europe and traced the history of water features and the development of hydraulic technology. She has lectured on art and garden history for adult education courses in Glasgow and London, and contributed to the Courtauld Institute art and architecture website. .....

Horne, Alistair

Alistair Horne is the author of eighteen books, including The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805–1815, and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. In 1993 Horne was awarded the French Légion d'Honneur and in 2003 received a knighthood for his work in the history of France. .....

Horniman, Joanne

Joanne Horniman has spent most of her life in New South Wales, apart from a few years in Sydney and some time travelling overseas. She has worked as an editor, teacher and artist – some of the posters she helped produce are in the Australian National Gallery. She lives outside Lismore in a house and workshop she and her partner built themselves, and has two sons. Everyone in the family plays music apart from Joanne, and she says 'the rural peace is sometimes shattered by teenage boys jamming in the workshop'. .....

Horrocks, Dylan

Dylan Horrocks is the author of the graphic novel Hicksville and the comic books Pickle and Atlas. He lives in New Zealand.

Horwood, Catherine

Dr Catherine Horwood is a cultural historian and honorary research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. A former research fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, she has recently been awarded a Fellowship at the Huntington Library and Botanical Garden in California. She has published and broadcast widely on 20th-century social history. Dr Horwood has been involved with the National Gardens Scheme for many years and has a roof garden in north London and a patio in Oxford, both packed with pots.

Hourican, Bridget

Bridget is of mixed Irish-Palestinian heritage, born in Belfast, grew up in Brussels, spent a few years living in Budapest, and is now based in Dublin. As a journalist she has contributed to Time Out and The Irish Times, among other publications. Bridget also has a big interest in travel and history, and has worked on some major projects including the Atlas of Irish History and the Dictionary of Irish Bibliography.

House, Catherine

CATHERINE HOUSE is an established educational writer who specialises in writing for African and Caribbean schools, and who has worked with leading educational publishers, including Macmillan Education. She has lived and worked in Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea and Zimbabwe. She now lives in Oxford where she works part-time for a charity helping homeless people. This is her first book for Frances Lincoln.

How, Chris

Chris How BSc (Civil Engineering), London University; MSc Weald & Downland Museum of Buildings through Bournemouth University

Howard, Paul

Paul Howard helps Ross O'Carroll-Kelly to write his autobiographical series, now consisting of four titles, largely because Ross can't really write, roysh? Find out more at http://www.obrien.ie/ross.

He is also the author of the bestselling prison expose, The Joy, and co-author of Celtic Warrior, the autobiography of boxer Steve Collins.

A former Sports Journalist of the Year, Paul is the chief sports writer for the Sunday Tribune. .....

Howard, Richard

Richard Howard is a poet, translator and critic. Since 1958, he has translated more than one hundred fifty books and has earned recognition as one of the truly authoritative translators of modern French literature.

Howard, Sarah

Shortlisted for the Travel Photographer of the Year Award 2008, Sarah Howard lives in the Cotswolds near Westonbirt. This is her first book.

Howard, Simon

The Hon. Simon Howard lives at Castle Howard with his wife Rebecca and their twins Merlin and Octavia.

Howarth, Maggy

Maggy Howarth is a leading authority on the subject of pebble mosaics. An artist who adopted the medium 20 years ago, she has produced hundreds of pebble mosaics in the UK. To visit her website click here

Howe, Fanny

FANNY HOWE was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and moved to California to attend Stanford University when she was seventeen. She has published several books of poetry and fiction and a collection of essays called The Wedding Dress. She is Professor Emeritus of American Literature and Writing at the University of California, San Diego.

Howells, William Dean

William Dean Howells (1837–1920), the author of thirty-six novels, twelve books of travel, and many short stories, articles, essays, and poems, grew up in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, the son of a printer with strong antislavery and egalitarian beliefs. Largely self-taught, Howells began his writing career as a reporter and was soon publishing poetry, fiction, and criticism in national magazines. He wrote a campaign biography for Abraham Lincoln and was rewarded with an appointment as the US consul in Venice. .....

Huchet Bishop, Claire

Claire Huchet Bishop (1899-1993) was a children's novelist and librarian. She attended the Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France. After moving to the United States, she worked for the New York Public Library. She was the winner of the Newbery Honor for Pancakes-Paris and All Alone and the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten.

Hudson, Ella

Ella Hudson grew up in Cornwall and has always loved drawing. She graduated from University College Falmouth with a degree in illustration and has worked on various magazines. Hudson Hates School is her first book. Ella lives in Penzance in Cornwall.

Huggins-Cooper, Lynn

Lynne Huggins-Cooper has published over 100 books for children including picture books, educational and non-fiction titles, craft and parenting books. She also writes regularly for the TES and Prima magazine. This is her first picture-book for Frances Lincoln. Lynne lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. .

Hughes, Brian

Born in Dublin, Brian Hughes studied in NUI Maynooth and Trinity College Dublin.

Hughes, Harry

Harry Hughes comes from a well-known Westport business family and is Chairman of the Croagh Patrick Archaeological Group. He is the author of a number of books on Croagh Patrick.

Hughes, Ted

Ted Hughes is ranked as one of the best poets of his generation. His final two collections won the Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year in successive years. He was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. In the same year he had been appointed to the Order of the Merit. He wrote children's stories and poetry throughout his life.

Hunt, Gerry

GERRY HUNT worked for twenty-five years as an architect, eighteen of them with the IDA. In 1986 he left architecture and began drawing political cartoons. From this, he moved on to drawing entire comics ... his first, selfproduced, comic was a rhyming, Spanish-language work that he gave away to friends.He has since publishedIn Dublin City and The Streets of Dublin. The Streets of Dublin has been included in an exhibition entitled Artist's Books in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Hunt, Julie

Julie Hunt has written poetry and performed with the Kazakstan Kowgerls. When she wrote Little Else: Trick Rider, she discovered that one book didn’t have enough room for this daring little heroine who left home with just a lucky horseshoe nail and the ability to talk to horses.

Hurst, Ian

Husain, Intizar

Intizar Husain (b. 1923) is a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, widely considered the most significant living fiction writer in Urdu. Born in Dibai, Bulandshahr, in British-administered India, he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and currently lives in Lahore. His other titles in English include Leaves, The Seventh Door, A Chronicle of the Peacocks, and An Unwritten Epic.

Hutchby, Clive

CLIVE HUTCHBY climbed his very first Lakeland fell just two years after the publication of the last of legendary fellwalker and guidebook writer Alfred Wainwright’s seven PICTORIAL GUIDES TO THE LAKELAND FELLS, and a full six years before the author relented to ‘pressure’ from his fans and produced his final guide to the mountains of the English Lake District, THE OUTLYING FELLS OF LAKELAND. .....

Hutchins, Maude

Maude Phelps Mcveigh Hutchins (1899-1991) was born in New York City. Her mother came from an old New England family, and her father was an editor at the New York Sun. Orphaned at a young age, Maude and her sister were raised by their aunt, a prominent member of Long Island society. Maude attended a finishing school, and soon after graduating became engaged to Robert Maynard Hutchins, who, at the age of thirty, would leave his post as the dean of the Yale Law School to become president of the University of Chicago. .....