![]() His primary target was the general novel, of which he eventually published ten. He started taking writing seriously when, on leaving the army at the end of 1946, he was given an Atlantic Award by the Rockefeller Foundation. ![]() ![]() Subsequently he has lived in London, Guernsey, and Rye. When he was aged ten, his family moved south to Hampshire, where he attended Peter Symonds' School, Winchester. John Christopher was the pseudonym of Christopher Samuel Youd, who was born in April 1922 in the village of Knowsley, near Liverpool. Many of Youd's novels for adults and children are considered classics, including The Death of Grass, The Guardians, and the four books in his Tripods series, which were adapted successfully for television in the 1980s. ![]() Youd was born in Huyton, Lancashire in 1922, and began his career as an author after serving in World War II. John Christopher was the pen-name of Sam Youd, a celebrated and influential writer of science fiction. ![]()
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