John Rowe Townsend
(1922 - 2014)John Rowe Townsend was a British children's author and academic. His best-known children's novel The Intruder won a 1971 Edgar Award, and his best-known academic work Written for Children: An Outline of English Language Children's Literature (1965) was the definitive work of its time on the subject.
He was born in Leeds, and studied at Leeds Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Among his popular works are Gumble's Yard (his debut novel, published in 1961), Widdershins Crescent (1965), and The Intruder (1969), which won a 1971 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile Mystery. In Britain, The Intruder was made into a children's TV series starring Milton Johns as the stranger. Noah's Castle was filmed by Southern television and transmitted in seven 25-minute episodes in 1980.
He was born in Leeds, and studied at Leeds Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Among his popular works are Gumble's Yard (his debut novel, published in 1961), Widdershins Crescent (1965), and The Intruder (1969), which won a 1971 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile Mystery. In Britain, The Intruder was made into a children's TV series starring Milton Johns as the stranger. Noah's Castle was filmed by Southern television and transmitted in seven 25-minute episodes in 1980.
Novels
Gumble's Yard (1961)
Hell's Edge (1963)
Widdershins Crescent (1965)
The Hallersage Sound (1966)
Pirate's Island (1968)
The Intruder (1969)
Trouble in the Jungle (1969)
Goodbye to Gumble's Yard (1970)
Wish for Wings (1972)
The Summer People (1972)
Good-night, Prof, Love (1973)
Forest of the Night (1974)
Noah's Castle (1975)
Top of the World (1976)
The Xanadu Manuscript (1977)
aka The Visitors
Runaways (1979)
The Creatures (1980)
aka King Creature, Come
The Fortunate Isles (1981)
The Islanders (1981)
Kate and the Revolution (1982)
A Foreign Affair (1982)
Clever Dick: The Diary of a Dreadful Child (1982)
Dan Alone (1983)
Cloudy-Bright (1984)
Gone to the Dogs (1984)
Tom Tiddler's Ground (1985)
The Persuading Stick (1986)
Rob's Place (1987)
Downstream (1987)
The Hidden Treasure (1988)
The Golden Journey (1989)
Cranford Revisited (1989)
Sam and Jenny (1992)
The Invaders (1992)
Hell's Edge (1963)
Widdershins Crescent (1965)
The Hallersage Sound (1966)
Pirate's Island (1968)
The Intruder (1969)
Trouble in the Jungle (1969)
Goodbye to Gumble's Yard (1970)
Wish for Wings (1972)
The Summer People (1972)
Good-night, Prof, Love (1973)
Forest of the Night (1974)
Noah's Castle (1975)
Top of the World (1976)
The Xanadu Manuscript (1977)
aka The Visitors
Runaways (1979)
The Creatures (1980)
aka King Creature, Come
The Fortunate Isles (1981)
The Islanders (1981)
Kate and the Revolution (1982)
A Foreign Affair (1982)
Clever Dick: The Diary of a Dreadful Child (1982)
Dan Alone (1983)
Cloudy-Bright (1984)
Gone to the Dogs (1984)
Tom Tiddler's Ground (1985)
The Persuading Stick (1986)
Rob's Place (1987)
Downstream (1987)
The Hidden Treasure (1988)
The Golden Journey (1989)
Cranford Revisited (1989)
Sam and Jenny (1992)
The Invaders (1992)
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