Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning writer for children, a
well-known poet and author of a memoir of childhood, The Hidden
Roads, praised by Rowan Williams as 'A lovely, poignant book, not
wasting a word and evoking place in a deep way.'
His ghost story Storm was awarded the Carnegie Medal while The
Seeing Stone won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the
Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. The Arthur
trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated
into twenty-five languages and its successor, Gatty's Tale was
shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
He has a Minnesotan wife, Linda, two sons (Kieran and Dominic) and
two daughters (Oenone and Eleanor). He is an Honorary Fellow of St
Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, the
European Storytelling Archive, and the Story Museum, a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature and was President of the School
Library Association (2012 – 2015). He has been awarded Honorary
Doctorates by Anglia Ruskin University and the University of
Worcester.
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