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Portrait image of Aidan Chambers Photo: Robert Ahlbom / Forflex

Chambers, Aidan

Country/Region:
Storbritannien
Born:
December 27, 1934
Dead:
May 11, 2025
Genres:
Children's literature
British author of books for children and young adults born north of Durham, near the town of Chester-le-Street. His father was a skilled woodworker , his mother looked after the household and many of his male relatives were coal miners . Aidan was an only child brought up in a house with only five books: a bible, a dictionary, a book on house construction, a gardening book and a copy of Aesop's Fables.

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