David Almond
David Almond is a prominent British children’s and young-adult fiction writer, best known for his novel Skellig. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1951, Almond was raised in Felling by working-class parents and had five brothers and sisters. He attended St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy, and then the University of East Anglia (he studied English and American literature, having a particular affinity for the tales of King Arthur and the writing of Hemingway) and Newcastle Polytechnic. He worked as a...