Michael Foreman is an award-winning British author and illustrator, mainly for children. He lives in London. He is one of the best-known and most prolific writer-illustrators of children's books. He was born and grew up in the seaside village of Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, where his mother kept the village shop. He studied at Lowestoft School of Art, and later in London at the Royal College of Art, where he won a scholarship to the U.S.A. After graduating, he lectured at St Martin's School of Art, London; and then moved to Chicago, where he worked as Art director of Playboy. He later... returned to London and worked as Art Director of King. In 1967 he returned to lecturing, and has since worked in London at the Royal College of Art, the London School of Printing and the Central School of Art. His career as an illustrator began in 1961 when he illustrated the Comic Alphabet written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. Over the years he has illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Rudyard Kipling and many others, as well as writing and illustrating his own books.
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