The Lion Tamer’s Daughter (33 page)

Authors: Peter Dickinson

Peter loved reading to his children at bedtime and carried on doing so long after they learned to read for themselves. Here he is reading to John and James in 1967.

Peter's author photo from the jacket of
The Seventh Raven
, taken by Faye Godwin in 1981.

In 1990 Peter was asked to give a talk at a conference in Boston and arranged to take advantage of the free Atlantic flights by seeing various people in New York the following week. Vastly underestimating the distances involved, he invited himself to stay with Robin McKinley, author of
The Red Magician
, in Maine for the intervening weekend. The result was like a car accident, changing lives. Within ten days of his return, they had arranged by telephone that she would lease her house and come and live with him in England. They married on January 3, 1991.

Peter and Robin love traveling with their dogs. They have often explored the outer fringes of the British Isles, taking the dogs with them.

Peter's wonderful family during Christmas in 2002.

In 2009 Peter was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to children's literature in the Queen's birthday honors list.

Peter currently resides in southern England with Robin. He now has six grandchildren.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

“The Spring” copyright Â© 1987 by Peter Dickinson, originally published in
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Cover design by Mimi Bark

ISBN: 978-1-5040-0295-0

This edition published in 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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