So powerful is the text that when you finally raise your head to re-enter the real world and leaf back through the book you see that there were fewer illustrations than you had imagined. His descriptive narrative is stupendous and takes your imagination flying headlong into the story. The tales often begin with characters of humble origin that fall into adventures and intrigues, their essential goodness winning through at the end. He had an intimate knowledge of the city which comes across in the detailed descriptions of the area in his writings. Garfield took London as the backdrop for the general theme of his books for children set in the Victorian era. Her first book, 'The Haunting of Cassie Palmer', was published when she was fifty six years old. Her character was shy and retiring and it was only when her husband began to write fewer books that she took to writing her own books for children. Garfield worked as a bio-technician and Vivien as a commercial artist. There was some opposition to their marriage from both families. Separated from his first wife after only a few months of marriage, he met Vivien during the war when she was an ambulance driver and he was a medical orderly. Garfield lived with his second wife, Vivien Alcock, in Highgate, North London. Constable however persuaded him to adapt the novel for children and this he did very successfully. Garfield's first book was a pirate story entitled 'Jack Holborn' which he submitted to Constable, the publishers, as a novel for adults. He was a prolific writer of over thirty books for children and adults, including picture book texts, short stories, as well as the retelling of traditional and classical material. Ex-libris but with minimal library stamps or marks, clean and tight throughout.Leon Garfield was born in Brighton on the 14th July 1921 and died 2nd June 1996, just short of his 75th birthday. He has illustrated numerous historical children's novels by Leon Garfield, beginning with Jack Holborn in 1964, and has also illustrated books by Eleanor Farjeon, Penelope Lively, Joan Aiken, Jan Mark and Aidan Chambers. Illustrator Antony Jasper Maitland was born in Andover, Hampshire, UK, in the third quarter of 1935. His second book, Devil-in-the-Fog (1966), won the first annual Guardian Prize and was serialised for television. In this form it was first published by Constable in 1964. saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded Garfield to adapt it for younger readers. Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel 'Jack Holborn', for adult readers, but an editor at Constable & Co. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted Shakespeare: The Animated Tales for television. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults.
Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 - 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction.
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