William Horwood
William Horwood was born on May 12, 1944,[Sourced] in Oxford, and was brought up on the south-east coast of England.[Sourced] In 1963 he went to Bristol University; he obtained an honours degree in Geography with Economics in 1996.[Sourced] After graduating he taught at a London preparatory school for two years, then went into journalism where he worked for ten years, initially as a news reporter, later as a management, marketing and business freelance journalist for the Financial Times, the Guardian, Marketing and Reader's Digest . He was a features editor of the London Daily Mail from 1972-77.[Sourced] In 1982 he received a diploma in management studies, with distinction, from the Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education.
His first novel, Duncton Wood, was published in 1980. It became an instant bestseller, and was nominated for the 1981 Locus Poll Award for the Best fantasy Novel. It was followed by The Stonor Eagles (1982), Callanish (1984) and Skallagrigg (1987). In 1988 Duncton Quest, the sequel to Duncton Wood, was published, and then Duncton Found (1989), which completes the Duncton Chronicles trilogy. The companion Duncton trilogy, The Book of Silence, began in 1991 with Duncton Tales, and continued with Duncton Rising (1992) and Duncton Stone (1993).
The Willows in Winter, Horwood's sequel to Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, was published in 1994, and a continuation, Toad Triumphant, in 1996. The Willows and Beyond, and then, most recently of all, The Willows at Christmas, published in October of 1999, complete the Tales of the Willows series.
The Wolves of Time duology, begun in 1995 with Journeys to the Heartland, concluded with Seekers at the Wulfrock in 1997. This was originally to be a trilogy with a third volume, Wanderers of the Wolfways, in between, but publishing constraints reduced it to two books rather than three.
William Horwood's most recent work was published in August of 2004. The Boy With No Shoes, the book is "fictionalised biography", loosely based on the author's own youth in a fishing town in East Kent, England.
William Horwood has been married three times and has six children; he lives in Oxford.[Sourced] His interests include mountain walking and backpacking, wild flowers, windsurfing and—of course—writing.
Sources
Author information in Skallagrigg by William Horwood. London, England: Penguin Books, 1988.
"William Horwood". Thomson Gale. Last updated 2005. Retrieved March 6, 2006, from Contemporary Authors Online.
Author details: William Horwood at HodderHeadline.co.uk. Retrieved July 23, 2006.
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A bibliographical blurb on William Horwood from the Speakers' Agency.
This includes a larger version of the photograph seen on some duct jackets.
An author profile from VoyagerOnline.
Author details of William Horwood from Headline, the publishers of The Boy With No Shoes.
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