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- Helen Bailey
Helen Bailey was born and brought up in Northumberland, a county she still regards as home.
- Grahame Baker Smith
Grahame Baker Smith studied at Berkshire College of Art and Design and has had two picture books published: JO-JO'S JOURNEY in 1994 and THE VELVETEEN RABBIT in 1996.
- David Belbin
David Belbin's first novel was published in 1990 under the Scholastic Point Crime imprint.
- Robin Benway
Robin Benway grew up in Orange County California and attended college at both NYU and UCLA.
- Mara Bergman
Mara Bergman grew up on Long Island, NY, and is the author of more than a dozen books for young children.
- Rachel Billington
Rachel Billington was the fifth of eight brothers and sisters and has four children herself.
- Beverley Birch
Beverley was born in London, grew up in Kenya and came to Britain for the first time to take A levels.
- Malorie Blackman
After leaving school Malorie Blackman studied computer science and after ten years working in that profession she decided she'd had enough of bits, bytes and debugging and had found something she wanted to do more - writing! Malorie joined writing classes at the City Lit and spent every spare moment writing, writing and writing.
- Jon Blake
Jon has had a wide variety of jobs, working as a teacher, a university lecturer and even a dustman.
- Nick Bland
Nick Bland's first picture book was published in 2001 and he is one of the key sellers on Scholastic's picture book list.
- Erica Blaney
When Erica was at school she entered every available writing competition andalways came either second or third, which she found most frustrating! Later,one of her stories was shortlisted for the Real Writers Award 2003 andanother was published in the an online science fiction site called Aphelion.
- Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton died in 1968 but remains one of the best-known and best-loved writers of children's stories.
- Mike Bostock
Mike Bostock was born in Bristol, England and studied Illustration at Bath Academy of Art between 1980-84.
- Michael Broad
Michael studied illustration at Portsmouth University graduating with a first class honours degree.
- Paul Bryers
Paul Bryers is a highly acclaimed writer of adult fiction (The Used Woman's Book Club, The Prayer of the Bone etc.
- Nick Butterworth
Nick Butterworth and Mick Inkpen have produced between them over twenty children's books, including NICE AND NASTY, THE NATIVITY PLAY and THE BLUE BALLOON.
