birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
scunthorpe british '' , '' johnny mackintosh : star blaze '' johnny mackintosh and the spirit of london '' 1965 popular , young adult fiction fiction , children 's fiction , science fiction keith mansfield -lrb- writer -rrb-
 keith mansfield novelist
keith mansfield -lrb- writer -rrb-

keith mansfield , born in scunthorpe , england in 1965 , is an english writer and publisher .
he is the author of the johnny mackintosh series of novels , has scripted several television programmes and is also the publisher for mathematics books at oxford university press .
his first novel , `` johnny mackintosh and the spirit of london '' was longlisted for the new horizons book award 2010 and has been shortlisted for the concorde book award 2011 .
schooled in nottingham -lrb- nottingham high school and west bridgford school -rrb- and studying mathematics and physics at trinity college , cambridge , mansfield 's work is notable for the way it weaves scientific ideas and concepts into the general narrative .
mansfield lives in spitalfields , london and is the recipient of a hawthornden fellowship .
his novels have been translated into dutch and norwegian .
