Marcus Sedgwick was a British writer and illustrator.
13 Facts About Marcus Sedgwick
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Marcus Sedgwick authored several young adult and children's books and picture books, a work of nonfiction and several novels for adults, and illustrated a collection of myths and a book of folk tales for adults.
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Marcus Sedgwick was born 8th April 1968 in Preston, a small village in East Kent, England.
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Marcus Sedgwick has one brother, Julian, and a half-sister, Ellie.
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Marcus Sedgwick's mother had once worked in Machynlleth at the Centre for Alternative Technology; the area was the setting for Susan Cooper's fantasy series The Dark Rising, and Sedgwick called those books influential for him.
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Marcus Sedgwick was influenced by Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series, which his father had introduced him to.
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Marcus Sedgwick studied mathematics and politics at the University of Bath.
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Marcus Sedgwick's father died when Sedgwick was twenty years old.
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In 2013 he released Dark Satanic Mills, a graphic novel written in conjunction with his brother Julian Marcus Sedgwick and illustrated by John Higgins.
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Marcus Sedgwick won numerous awards for his writing, most notably the Michael L Printz Award in 2011 for Revolver, 2014 for Midwinter Blood, and 2016 for The Ghosts of Heaven.
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Marcus Sedgwick taught creative writing at Bath Spa University as a writer in residence from 2011 through 2014 and wrote reviews for the Guardian newspaper.
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Marcus Sedgwick had a daughter, Alice, with his first wife Kate Agnew.
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In 2014, Marcus Sedgwick was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, known as myalgic encephalomyelitis.