birth_place nationality notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation
thames valley , england british '' septimus heap '' series 20 june 1952 fantasy angie sage
 angie sage author
angie sage

angie sage -lrb- born 20 june 1952 -rrb- is the author of the septimus heap series which includes `` magyk , flyte , physik , queste , syren '' , `` darke '' and fyre .
she is also the illustrator and/or writer of many children 's books , and is the new writer of the araminta spook series .
angie sage grew up in thames valley , london and kent .
her father was a publisher .
he would bring home blank books that she would fill with pictures and stories .
sage first studied medicine , but changed her mind and went to art school in leicester .
there she studied graphic design and illustration .
she began illustrating books after college .
then she progressed to writing children stories , including toddler books and chapter books .
her first novel was septimus heap : magyk .
