Biography of David Almond

"His books are written with great delicacy"

by a reader of SKELLIG.

Born in the fifties and is in his sixties. The man who's dreams in space to create his fantastic books .SKELLIG came from this space.

David Almond grew up in a rather Catholic family in Felling-Tyne. He had five siblings. Fours sisters and a brother. David was born 15th May 1951 in England. His main hobby's were playing football and writing. Sadly his Dad died when he was young also one of his sister. Because of his life his books are made like SKELLIG.

After a few years of sadness and jolliness he went to university. He went to the university of East Angilia. Surprisingly he continued writing eve though all of his books got rejected. Next he got his first job as a teacher teaching grammar to pupils.

Finally David quitted his teaching job to become a writer at Rural Norfolk. He met his partner there. Still all of his books got rejected. During his rejecting days, SKELLIG came out of nowhere. In a year it became the best children books. Another year past and it turned into a movie. No other books that he wrote became as popular as SKELLIG.

Now you know what he went through to become an epic writer. Do you want to become as awesome as him? Well just read this over and over again. Then you can become as good as him! Now I hope you can make angles fly (In your imagination)