Stewart Ross
, b. 1947
Stewart Ross was born in Aylesbury, United Kingdom on April 4th, 1947. He is a British author of fiction for children. Ross has also written adult novels, plays and a musical. He taught in Sri Lanka, the Middle East, the USA, and Britain before turning to writing full-time writer in 1989. He has been Chair of the Educational Writers Group of the Society of Authors and Chair of the Canterbury Branch of the Historical Association. Ross has earnt numerous literary achievements for his writing, all being from other books in his collections. The most famous being the ‘Benjamin Franklin Prize for fact and faction, for the Witches in 1996,’ and the ‘Boston Globe Horn Honour, for Into the Unknown in 2011. Many of his works for children feature historical topics, including Greed, Seeds, and Slavery (Eden Children's Books, 2013), Big J: The Story of Julius Caesar (Wayland, 2001), Boudicca: Guilty or Innocent? (ReadZone Books, 2017), and Down with the Romans! (ReadZone Books, 2015).
Sources:
Official website (accessed: October 22, 2019).
Information at Google Books (accessed: June 12, 2019).
Profile at Scholastic (accessed: June 24, 2019).
Bio prepared by Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, sonya.nevin@roehampton.ac.uk and Hayden Taylor, Victoria University of Wellington, hayden.n.taylor11@gmail.com
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