Samuel Youd
Sam Youd was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.
Background
- Born in
- Huyton
- Educated at
- Dominion Herbal CollegePeter Symonds College
- Awards
- 🏆 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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1922
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