Alison Prince
Alison Prince is an accomplished artist and respected biographer and poet,
as well as one of the top writers for young people. Her life and career have
been enviably varied, colourful and successful; from penning those immortal
words 'Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew...' for the Trumpton TV series, to writing
a novel with the help of 21 Lincolnshire children (How's Business, 1987),
to winning the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1996 with her contemporary
Glaswegian Robin Hood story, The Sherwood Hero.
Alison Prince has also won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, raised
three children, managed a small farm and produced major, highly acclaimed biographies
of Kenneth Grahame and Hans Christian Anderson.
Alison lives on the Isle of Arran, Scotland.