Jill Paton Walsh, CBE, FRSL is an English novelist and children's writer. Born as Gillian Bliss and educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, London, she read English Literature at St Anne's College, Oxford. She lives in Cambridge. Novels for children include: The Dolphin Crossing, Fireweed, Babylon, Hengest's Tale, A Parcel of Patterns, Birdy and the Ghosties, Grace, Thomas and the Tinners, The Green Book, Goldengrove and its sequel Unleaving , Gaffer Samson's Luck and The Emperor's Winding Sheet . Knowledge of Angels, a medieval philosophical novel, was shortlisted for the 1994... Booker Prize. Other adult novels include: She authored four detective stories featuring part-time college nurse Imogen Quy, based in fictional St. Agatha's College, University of Cambridge: In 1998, she won acclaim for her completion of Dorothy L. Sayers' unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey - Harriet Vane novel, Thrones, Dominations. In 2002, she followed this up with another Lord Peter novel, A Presumption of Death.
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| Birthdate: | April 29, 1937 |
| Age: | 75 |
| Also known as: | Gillian Bliss |