K&m peyton biography
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K. M. Peyton
British author (–)
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| Born | Kathleen Wendy Herald ()2 August Birmingham, England |
| Died | 19 December () (aged&#;94) |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | British |
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| Genre | children's and young adults' fiction |
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| Spouse | Mike Peyton (m.
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| Children | 2 daughters |
Kathleen Wendy Herald PeytonMBE (2 August – 19 December ), who wrote primarily as K. M. Peyton, was a British author of fiction for children and young adults in the s and s.
Peyton wrote more than fifty novels in the including the Ruth Hollis series, the Pennington series, and the Flambards series,[1] the latter about the Russell family which spanned the period before and after the First World War.
For the Flambards series, Peyton won both the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association[2] and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of B