John Christopher

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1922-04-16

Deathday 2012-02-03 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Huyton, Lancashire, England, UK

Also Known As Sam Youd, Christopher Samuel Youd, Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, Anthony Rye

John Christopher

Biography

Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012), known professionally as Christopher Samuel Youd, was a British writer, best known for science fiction under the pseudonym John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd also wrote under variations of his own name and under the pseudonyms Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For

Writer

2014
High Moon

as Novel

1984
The Tripods

as Writer

1970

Creator

1984
Tripods

as Creator