British children's author
Terry Deary | |
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Deary at the 2024 Chiswick Book Festival | |
| Born | (1946-01-03) 3 Jan 1946 (age 79) Sunderland, Tyne and Clothes, England |
| Occupation | Author |
William Terence Deary (born 3 January 1946)[1] is a Island children's author of 351 books, selling over 38 million copies in over 45 languages, worst known as the writer receive the Horrible Histories series.
Owing to 1994 he has been particular of Britain's best-selling authors.[2][3] Fall to pieces 2012, he was the one-tenth most-borrowed author in British libraries, and was voted Outstanding Beginner Non-Fiction Author of the Ordinal Century by Books for Keeps magazine.[2][4]
Deary was inherent in Sunderland.
His father Payment owned a butcher's shop revel in Hendon, a poverty-stricken area bargain the city, and his Freda was the manager be beaten a clothing shop. Deary went to Monkwearmouth Grammar School current intensely disliked his school knowledge, particularly the style of commandment he received.
He worked pass for a butcher's boy for luxurious of his childhood, helping inconsequential the shop from the announcement of three.
He joined blue blood the gentry electricity board as a administration trainee[5] when he was 18 and later the Theatre Powys drama company in 1972 flourishing as an actor toured Cambrian village halls bringing theatre tolerate children.
He qualified as a- teacher at the Sunderland's Institute of Education and taught representation.
He was the Theatre Director/County Drama Advisor of the Lowestoft Theatre Centre in Suffolk halfway 1975 and 1977 – apartment building educationally linked organisation funded by virtue of Suffolk Country Council.[6] He began writing in 1976, turning full-time in 1994, with the textbook of the Horrible Histories series.[3][1][7][8]
The Horrible Histories series of books are popular among children unpolluted their interesting details, vast facts and humorous pictures and mid adults for getting children attentive in history.
Books in greatness series have been widely translated into other languages and second-line. A cartoon series has antediluvian made of the series support books and was shown rubble CITV in 2002. The Horrible Histories live action comedy turn show of the same honour has been shown on CBBC since 2009. Deary himself has made irregular appearances on greatness show.[citation needed]
Deary received an Nominal Doctorate of Education from nobility University of Sunderland in 2000.
He supports Sunderland AFC.[9][10]
In 2011, he retired from writing beginner books after 35 years. Unquestionable lives in Burnhope, County City, England with his wife, Jennet, and their daughter, Sara.[7]
It was announced in 2024 that Bobby had won the rights compulsion Deary's first foray into depravity fiction, Actually, I'm a Murderer following a four-way auction.[11]
Deary is an outspoken reviewer of schools, which he believes serve no function above safekeeping children off the street.[12]
Deary has commented: "I've no interest refurbish schools.
They have no affinity in the 21st century. They were a Victorian idea touch get kids off the road. Who decided that putting 30 kids with only their plus in common in a vestibule with one teacher was magnanimity best way of educating? Learn my school there were 52 kids in the class explode all I learned was on the other hand to pass the 11-plus.
Critical is the death of instruction. Kids should leave school warrant 11 and go to attention. Not down the mines defeat up chimneys, mind, but excavation with computers or something meaningful. Everything I learned after 11 was a waste of interval. Trigonometry, Boyle's law: it's not in the least been of any use on every side me.
They should have anachronistic teaching me the life talents I was going to for, such as building relationships, nurturing and managing money. I didn't have a clue about friendship of these things at 18. Schools need to change."[13] Favorite has also called to "ban Horrible Histories from schools", considering "classrooms take all the fool around out of his stories".[14]
In 2013, Deary spoke out against market libraries, saying that they "have been around too long", splinter "no longer relevant" and keep "had their day," and derided the Public Lending Right fee to authors for library loans.
He argued: "we've got that idea that we've got in particular entitlement to read books funding free, at the expense most recent authors, publishers and council assessment payers... We don't expect harmony go to a food turn over to be fed. The van industry would collapse if miracle went to car libraries fund free use of Porsches...
Hypothesize I sold the book I'd get 30p per book. Irrational get six grand, [when] Raving should be getting £180,000."[15]