- Taught at Deakin University in Australia in 1976-1977.
- Worked briefly for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
- Author of more than 100 books, chiefly science fiction and fantasy.
- Composed the incidental music for 'Holly from the Bongs' (1966), a nativity play by Alan Garner.
- Published his first novel, 'Follow the Footprints', in 1953 at the age of twenty-five.
- Winner of the 1957 Carnegie medal, which is awarded for children's literature.
- On 24 March 2010 he was was dead at his house in Thornton Rust in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
- In 2004 he was convicted of various charges of indecent assault between 1960 and 1975, and he was jailed for 2½ years.
- Lives in the Yorkshire Dales, England, UK. (2002)
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