1. Robert Kilgore Muchamore was born on 26 December 1971 and is an English author of young adult fiction.
11 Facts About Robert Muchamore
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Robert Kilgore Muchamore was born in Tufnell Park, London, on 26 December 1971, and is the youngest of four children; his father was a milkman and his mother a cleaning lady.
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Robert Muchamore started writing the CHERUB novels because his nephew Jared, who lived in Australia, could not find any novels that he liked reading.
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Robert Muchamore tried to write novels that he would have enjoyed reading when he was an adolescent, a time when he remembers being too old for children's novels but not old enough to read adult novels.
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Robert Muchamore has written and published seventeen CHERUB novels and a World Book Day novella which combined have sold over 15,000,000 copies.
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Robert Muchamore has authored a second series of novels about the origins of CHERUB entitled Henderson's Boys.
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In 2014, it was announced that Robert Muchamore would be writing another novel, Rock War, which has no connection to CHERUB or Henderson Boys, except a cameo appearance by one character.
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In February 2019, Robert Muchamore announced that he would be writing a new series, based on Robin Hood and set in the 2020s.
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In between writing The Recruit and Class A, Robert Muchamore wrote a novel called Little Criminals.
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Robert Muchamore posted the first two chapters onto the CHERUB series' official forum, to see what his fans thought.
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Unlike Home, Robert Muchamore has not published the rest of the text on his fan forum because he still holds out some hope that it will be published.