Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning writer for children, a well-known poet and author of a memoir of childhood, The Hidden Roads, praised by Rowan Williams as 'A lovely, poignant book, not wasting a word and evoking place in a deep way.' His ghost story Storm was awarded the Carnegie Medal while The Seeing Stone won the Guardian ... Read moreChildren's Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize Bronze Medal, and the Tir na n-Og Award. The Arthur trilogy has won worldwide critical acclaim and has been translated into twenty-five languages and its successor, Gatty's Tale was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He has a Minnesotan wife, Linda, two sons (Kieran and Dominic) and two daughters (Oenone and Eleanor). He is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, a patron of the Society for Storytelling, the European Storytelling Archive, and the Story Museum, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was President of the School Library Association (2012 - 2015). He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Worcester. Show Less