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William Mayne
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Taught at Deakin University in Australia in 1976-1977.
Worked briefly for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Author of more than 100 books, chiefly science fiction and fantasy.
Composed the incidental music for 'Holly from the Bongs' (1966), a nativity play by
Alan Garner
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Published his first novel, 'Follow the Footprints', in 1953 at the age of twenty-five.
Winner of the 1957 Carnegie medal, which is awarded for children's literature.
On 24 March 2010 he was was dead at his house in Thornton Rust in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
In 2004 he was convicted of various charges of indecent assault between 1960 and 1975, and he was jailed for 2½ years.
Lives in the Yorkshire Dales, England, UK. (2002)
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