Anita Ganeri
, b. 1961
Anita Ganeri was born in Calcutta, India. Her family emigrated to the UK when she was a baby. She studied French and German and Indian Studies at Cambridge University. She worked as an editor for large publishing companies such as Walker Books and Usborne, before becoming a freelance editor and writer. She has written over 300 non-fiction titles for children which use humorous or unusual concepts to draw in young readers, such as the Horrible Geography series ("geography with the gritty bits left in"), and Writing History (exploring different types of writing in 6 historical periods) for Scholastic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. She lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with her husband and children.
Sources:
hachette.com.au (accessed: February 6, 2019)
en.wikipedia.org (accessed: February 6, 2019)
goodreads.com(accessed: February 6, 2019)
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.au
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