Alan Garner
Born in Congleton, Garner grew up around the nearby town of Alderley Edge, and spent much of his youth in the wooded area known locally as "The Edge", where he gained an early interest in the folklore of the region. Studying at Manchester Grammar School and then briefly at Oxford University, in 1957 he moved to the village of Blackden, where he bought and renovated an Early Modern Period (circa 1590) building known as Toad Hall. His first novel, ''The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'', was published in 1960. A children's fantasy novel set on the Edge, it incorporated elements of local folklore in its plot and characters. Garner wrote a sequel, ''The Moon of Gomrath'' (1963), and a third book, ''Boneland'' (2012). He wrote several fantasy novels, including ''Elidor'' (1965), ''The Owl Service'' (1967) and ''Red Shift'' (1973).
Turning away from fantasy as a genre, Garner produced ''The Stone Book Quartet'' (1979), a series of four short novellas detailing a day in the life of four generations of his family. He also published a series of British folk tales which he had rewritten in a series of books entitled ''Alan Garner's Fairy Tales of Gold'' (1979), ''Alan Garner's Book of British Fairy Tales'' (1984) and ''A Bag of Moonshine'' (1986). In his subsequent novels, ''Strandloper'' (1996) and ''Thursbitch'' (2003), he continued writing tales revolving around Cheshire, although without the fantasy elements which had characterised his earlier work. Provided by Wikipedia
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