Mal Peet

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**Mal Peet**
Born:	?? Norfolk, England
Occupation:	Novelist
Genres:	Young Adult
Website:	None

Mal Peet is an English author born in North Norfolk, who writes novels mainly for young adults. He has written novels such as Keeper, and The Penalty.

1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Writing career
2 Bibliography
3 Awards
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Mal Peet has said he has grown up in an emotionally impaired family [1], living on a council estate and says the three things that kept him sain were his bike, books, and football; as bikes took him great distances, books took him further away to places like islands. By the time he was 16 he was playing at least three full matches a week - for his school, his county, and for his town.

Mal Peet studied English and American Studies at the University of Warwick. After graduating from university he tried teaching to start with but quit soon after. His second job was a hospital mortuary. He moved to Devon as he liked the sound of it and worked on building sites.

[edit] Writing career

He started writing after he had children and soon realized he was interested in writing after discovered what was successful and what wasn't from reading to his children.

He started full term writing and illustrating in the early 1990s. His wife named Elspeth lives with him in Exmouth, Devon and helps him write and illustrate. Mal Peet and his wife produced many educational picture books for young children and many of his cartoons have appeared in magazines.

He has so far produced 3 novels including, Keeper (2003), which won the Branford Boase Award, his second which was Tamar (2005); a World War II story which won the 2005 Carnegie medal and most recently The Penalty (2006). He is currently writing Exposure set for 2007 to be published.