| Adrian Mitchell was born near Hampstead Heath in 1932. He was educated at a nameless school in Hell and then at Greenways, a school in Heaven, where his first play was staged when he was nine. He spent three happy years at Christ Church, Oxford but was conscripted against his will into the RAF which taught him to touch-type and confirmed his natural pacifism. Deciding not to be a primary school teacher, he became a journalist, then, having inherited enough money to live on for a year, wrote his first novel and first TV play. He quit journalism in the mid 60s and since then has been a free-falling poet, playwright and writer of stories. More and more of his time is spent writing for children, this is partly because he has six grandchildren. Ted Hughes wrote of him, “nobody has produced more surprising verse or more genuinely inspired fun than Adrian Mitchell.” Books include Daft as a Doughnut, Zoo of Dreams, and he’s edited The Orchard Book of Poems and A Poem a Day, all published by Orchard Books. |
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