Michael morpurgo biography maggie ferguson
In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo's life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories....
This biography is deep and rich, giving us many new insights.
Maggie Fergusson
British biographer and editor
Magdalen Margaret Christian Fergusson[1]OBE FRSL is a British biographer and editor. In addition to serving as literary editor for The Tablet and as editor of the Royal Society of Literature Review, she is the writer of two biographies on British writers: George Mackay Brown: The Life (2006) and Michael Morpurgo: War Child to War Horse (2013).
Biography
While working at the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) as secretary (a position she had held since 1989), Fergusson became interested in the writer George Mackay Brown after finding his work in the society's library.[2] After spending some time working in the financial industry and for Harpers & Queen, she was sent by The Times to her first visit to Orkney, where she would interview Mackay Brown in anticipation of his upcoming novel Vinland.[2][3]
With the support of Mackay Brown and his editor Hugo Brunner, Fergus