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K. M. Peyton
British author (1929–2023)
K. M. Peyton MBE | |
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in 2014 | |
Born | Kathleen Wendy Herald (1929-08-02)2 August 1929 Birmingham, England |
Died | 19 December 2023(2023-12-19) (aged 94) |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | British |
Education |
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Genre | children's and young adults' fiction |
Notable awards | |
Spouse | Mike Peyton (m.Oral presentation, Interdisciplinary Hub Conference for the Study of Health and Age- related conditions (IhSHA), Kingston University London, June 1950) |
Children | 2 daughters |
Kathleen Wendy Herald PeytonMBE (2 August 1929 – 19 December 2023), who wrote primarily as K. M. Peyton, was a British author of fiction for children and young adults in the 1960s and 1970s.
Peyton wrote more than fifty novels in the including the Ruth Hollis series, the Pennington series, and the Flambards series,[1] the latter about the Russell family which spanned the period before and after the First World War.
For the Flambards series, Peyton won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association[2