Ian Serraillier
, 1912 - 1994
Serraillier was a British novelist and poet. He attended St. Edmund’s Hall, a college of the University of Oxford, and worked as an English teacher for twenty-five years. He published his first children’s book in 1946. He wrote retellings of English, Greek, and Roman legends such as Beowulf, and The Canterbury Tales. His book The Silver Sword (1956) is his most well-known children’s book, and was adapted for television in 1957 and again in 1971 by the BBC. In 1948, Serraillier and his wife founded the New Windmill series, published by Heinemann Educational Books. He worked as co-editor of the series, producing over 350 titles, until the onset of Alzheimer’s in the early 1990s.
Sources:
Profile at the seh.ox.ac.uk (accessed: January 23, 2018).
Profile at the penguin.com.au (accessed: January 23, 2018).
Profile at the Wikipedia (accessed: January 23, 2018).
Profile at the gradesaver.com (accessed: January 23, 2018).
Bio prepared by Allison Rosenblum, Bar-Ilan University, allie.rose89@gmail.com
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