Jill Paton Walsh

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Jill Paton Walsh , CBE (* 29. April 1937 in London as Gillian Bliss , † before 20 October 2020) was a British writer .

Life

Gillian Bliss attended St. Michael's Convent School in North Finchley , London . She studied English Literature at St Anne's College of Oxford University .

In 1961 she married Antony Paton Walsh, from whom they later separated. The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. In 2004 she married the children's author John Rowe Townsend . Her brother is the economist Christopher John Emile Bliss , who was professor at Oxford from 1992-2007.

Paton Walsh first became known for her children's books, for which she won several prestigious awards. Later she moved more and more to adult books, including detective novels about the amateur detective Imogen Quy, a nurse at (fictional) St. Agatha's College at the University of Cambridge . She was chosen by the heirs of Dorothy L. Sayers to complete the unfinished final crime novel of the legendary series about Lord Peter Wimsey . She later published three more novels about Lord Peter.

Paton Walsh lived in Cambridge after long living in Richmond, Surrey. She died in October 2020 at the age of 83.

honors and awards

Works

Books for children and young readers

  • Hengest's Tale . 1966
  • The Dolphin Crossing . 1967
  • Wordhoard (with Kevin Crossley Holland). 1969
  • Fireweed . 1970
  • Goldengrove . 1972
  • Toolmaker . 1973
  • The Dawnstone. 1973
  • The Emperor's Winding Sheet . 1974
  • The Butty Boy (also called The Huffler ). 1975
  • Unleaving . 1976
  • Crossing to Salamis / The Walls of Athens / Persian Gold (together also under the title Children of the Fox ), 1977–1978
  • A chance child . 1978
  • The Green Book (also called Shine ). 1981
  • Babylon (illustrated by Jenny Northway). 1982
  • Lost & Found (illustrated by Mary Rayner). 1984
  • A Parcel of Patterns . 1984
  • Gazer Samson's Luck . 1985, (US Farrar Straus & Giroux) Puffin 87.
  • Five tides . 1986.
  • Torch . 1987 (made into a film by the BBC)
  • A School for Lovers . 1989
  • Birdy and The Ghosties (illustrated by Alan Marks). 1989
  • Can I Play? (Book series with four titles). 1990
  • Grace . 1992
  • When Grandma Came (illustrated by Sophie Williams). 1992
  • Matthew And the Sea Singer (illustrated by Alan Marks). 1992
  • Little Pepi and the Secret Names . 1994
  • Thomas and the Tinners (illustrated by Alan Marks). 1995
  • Connie Came to Play (illustrated by Stephen Lambert). 1995
  • When I was Little like You (illustrated by Stephen Lambert). 1997.

Adult books

  • Farewell, Great King . 1972.
  • The Island Sunrise. Prehistoric Britain . 1975 (non-fiction book)
  • Lapsing . Novel. 1986
  • A School for Lovers . Novel. 1989 (based on the opera Così fan tutte )
  • Knowledge of Angels . Novel. 1994
  • The Serpentine Cave . Novel. 1997 (about a shipwreck in St Ives )
  • A desert in Bohemia . Novel. 2000

Detective novels about Imogen Quy:

  • The Wyndham Case . Novel. 1993
  • A Piece of Justice . Novel. 1995
  • Debts of Dishonour . Novel. 2006
  • The Bad Quarto . Novel. 2007

Detective novels about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane:

literature

  • Martin Garrett: Cambridge. A Cultural and Literary History . With a foreword by Jill Paton Walsh. Signal Books, Oxford 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... As seen by Jill Paton Walsh
  2. ^ Jill Paton Walsh: Knowledge of Angels author dies at 83. In: Yahoo News . October 19, 2020, accessed October 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Paton Walsh, Jill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bliss, Gillian (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION British writer (crime novel, book for young people)
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH before October 20, 2020