Talk:Jenny Nimmo

message: [edit] Childhood
An article on Nimmo in Contemporary Authors Online states that she was born in 1942 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. She was an only child, and her father died when she was only five. According to a short article by the American publisher of the series, Nimmo was a voracious reader as a child, which led her to write her own stories to share with friends.
[edit] Career
After working for a time in theater, Nimmo worked for several years with the BBC. Part of that time was spent adapting other writers' stories for television. In 1974, she married David Wynn Millward, an artist and illustrator, and eventually had three children. She currently lives in Wales, sharing her time between writing, and helping her husband with a summer art school.
[edit] Works
Children of the Red King is a eries of 8 books (5 of which are out right now), published in the United States by Scholastic and by Egmont in England.
—01:53, 12 April 2007‎ 71.211.41.117
: ref name=gale Contemporary Authors Online may be the source for the first two paragraphs. That encyclopedia or database is available only to subscribers. Someone with a subscription should determine whether it is redundant given her official biography among others. --P64 (talk) 20:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2 (copied from some wiki?)

message: Two deleted: 
* charlie-bone.com (deadlink) [2012-10-18, —but see ref name=bone, a section of Nimmo's official website]
* "Jenny Nimmo News & Information" who says I AM VERY LUCKY TO KNOW JENNY PERSONALLY AND SHE KINDLY INFORMS ME OF WHAT SHE IS UP TO. but has not posted since September 2010. 
--P64 (talk) 17:12, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: --P64 (talk) 20:12, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
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message: Quote WorldCat
: Series: Telling tales; juvenile audience; 60pp; Includes an overview of Jenny Nimmo's books. and some illustration
: "Part of a series of interviews with popular children's authors. This interview with Jenny Nimmo is aimed at children in the top year of primary school and the first year of secondary school. She tells of her childhood, family, home town, schooldays and writing career."
--P64 (talk) 18:54, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: ''An Interview with Jenny Nimmo'' (1999) 

message: Do we have a reliable source for year 1944 or any other? "Jenny's Biography" on her website gives no date. Among ten national library catalogs compiled by VIAF, Australia gives year 1942, four give year 1944, five give no year.
: 15 Jan 1944, The Wee Web (which has been cited here) --and ISFDB --and Google Books "About the Author"
: 15 Jan 1942, IMDb --and Notable Biographies 
: 15 Jan 1940, as recently revised here (11:20, 18 October 2012‎ 131.251.133.25)
The latter ISP editor did not give a source for 1940, so I have restored 1944 without confidence (during the course of major revision 18/19 October). Evidently, the ISP did fix the facts on two other points. 
Encyclopedia of Notable Biographies: Jenny Nimmo says 1942 and lists some encouraging sources but it does not give references for any particular facts. Its two online sources accessed 2004-07-26 are not available to me now. Apparently the HarperCollins interview has been "unpublished" and Gale encyclopedia is for subscribers only. --P64 (talk) 21:18, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
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