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Trease, Geoffrey, 1909-1998

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Robert Geoffrey Trease was born in Nottingham, England in 1909. He attended Oxford University, but left before graduation, having decided to be an author rather than an academic. He was a prolific and distinguished creator of books for young people in a variety of genre: mystery, school stories, travel, history, and biography. He wrote similar books for adults and worked as a critic and lecturer. He died in 1998. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 101, p. 187. From...

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Geoffrey Trease, 1909-1998

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[Robert] Geoffrey Trease was born in Nottingham in 1909, the son of a wine merchant and a doctor's daughter. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Queen's College, Oxford. He married Marian Boyer in 1933. Trease was employed in a variety of teaching and publishing jobs before becoming a full-time writer. His first book, Bows Against the Barons (1934), was a historical children's novel about Robin Hood. In addition to literary criticism, Trease wrote both fiction and non-fict...