1. Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist.
14 Facts About Geraldine McCaughrean
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Geraldine McCaughrean has written more than 170 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to Peter Pan commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holder of Peter Pan's copyright.
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Geraldine McCaughrean's work has been translated into 44 languages worldwide.
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Geraldine McCaughrean has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L Printz Award among others.
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Geraldine McCaughrean attended Southgate Technical College from 1969 to 1970, then received a Bachelor of Education with honors from Christ Church College, Canterbury in 1977.
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Geraldine McCaughrean is married to John Geraldine McCaughrean, with whom she has a daughter: Ailsa.
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Geraldine McCaughrean studied teaching but found her true vocation in writing.
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Geraldine McCaughrean's motto is: do not write about what you know, write about what you want to know.
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Geraldine McCaughrean's work includes many retellings of classic stories for children: The Odyssey, El Cid, The Canterbury Tales, The Pilgrim's Progress, Moby Dick, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Gilgamesh.
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Geraldine McCaughrean won the competition, after submitting a synopsis and a sample chapter.
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Geraldine McCaughrean has written many other children's fiction books including The Kite Rider, The Stones Are Hatching, and Plundering Paradise.
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Geraldine McCaughrean was elected an Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University in 2006 and a Fellow of the English Association in 2010.
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Geraldine McCaughrean has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2010.
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Four of Geraldine McCaughrean's books are Junior Library Guild selections: Not the End of the World, The White Darkness, The Glorious Adventures of the Sunshine Queen, and Where the World Ends.