Robert Westall

Robert Westall was born in 1929. He taught in Cheshire before turning to full-time writing in 1985. He's first book The Machine Gunners won the Carnegie medal. Since then he has won the Carnegie again, and the Smarties Prize and the Sheffield Children's Books Award. He has also been shortlisted for the Whitbread as well as appearing numerous times on the Carnegie shortlist, and being a runner-up in the Children's Book Award.
Sadly Robert died in 1993.