Lucy Coats Children's and YA author

Lucy Coats

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Author Biography

I was born in Basingstoke, UK, and later went to Edinburgh University where I graduated with an MA in English Literature and Ancient History. I worked as a children’s book editor in London and New York, before becoming a full-time children’s author. I am married with two children.
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Influences

Ursula le Guin, Robin McKinley, Georgette Heyer, Ovid, Amergin, Taliesin, Charles Kingsley, Diana Wynne Jones, Andrew Lang, Wendy Cope, Dylan Thomas

Favorite Books

I have a houseful of 10,000 books. Favourites are subjective dependent on the day and hour and mood. But Tolkien's Lord of the Rings fits at most times.

Favorite Authors

Trollope, Tolkien, Austen, Patrick O'Brian, Georgette Heyer, Diana Wynne Jones, Robin McKinley...too many more to list.

What I'm Reading

Changes every couple of days--I'm a fast and omnivorous reader.

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