Ann Pilling

Who is Ann Pilling?

Ann Pilling is an English author and poet best known for young-adult fiction. She has also written horror fiction under the pen name Ann Cheetham.

For Henry's Leg, published by Viking Kestrel in 1985, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers.

Pilling was born in Warrington, Cheshire and grew up in a house "groaning with books". She started writing at eight and she going to church alone at twelve. She read English at King's College London and wrote a Master's thesis on C. S. Lewis.