“I
think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the
theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left
standing.” – Jill Paton Walsh
Paton
Walsh was the writing name of Gillian Bliss, born in England in April of 1937. A
novelist and children's book writer, she was best known for her novel Knowledge
of Angels, nominated for the Booker Prize, and for the Peter
Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that either completed or continued the work
of renowned British crime writer and poet Dorothy Sayers.
Paton
Walsh, who died in 2020, also earned considerable acclaim for her series
featuring college nurse and part-time detective Imogine Quy, set at the
fictional St. Agatha College in Cambridge, and for her two-dozen highly
successful children's and young adult titles, including the much
honored A Chance Child and Grace.
"There is nothing more important than writing well for the young,”
she once noted, “especially if literature is to have a continuance."
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