Michelle Magorian

Michelle Magorian is an English author of children's books, including Goodnight Mister Tom, Back Home and A Little Love Song. Michelle Magorian was the daughter of a navy man. She was born in hampshire, Portsmouth, before travlling to live in singapore, Austrailia, when she was seven and returning at the age of nine. As a child she spent as much time as possible in the King's Theatre in Portsmouth and her ambition was to become an actress. After three years of study at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, she spent two years at Marcel Marceau's L'école Internationale de Mime in... Paris. From there she launched into a professional acting career and spent a few years touring all over the country - from Scotland to Devon and then Yorkshire - working in repertory companies, taking any part she could. Michelle's worst stage part was playing Orinoco the Womble in a musical. All this time she had been secretly writing stories. In her mid-twenties she became interested in children's books, and decided to write one herself.
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