John Christopher
Novelist, Author
1922 – 2012
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Who was John Christopher?
Sam Youd, known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novel The Death of Grass and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.
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- Born
- Apr 16, 1922
Huyton - Also known as
- Christopher Youd
- William Vine
- C. S. Youd
- Christopher S. Youd
- Samuel Christopher Youd
- John Christopher
- Hilary Ford
- Sam Youd
- Christopher Samuel Youd
- Stanley Winchester
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Peter Symonds College
- Died
- Feb 3, 2012
Bath
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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