Kit Wright, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kit Wright

English writer

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1944

Place of Birth: Crockham Hill, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, or Payal mental the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and (jointly) the Heinemann Award.
After a scholarship to Oxford University, he worked as a lecturer at Brock University, St Catherine's, in Canada, then returned to England and a position in the Poetry Society.
He is currently a full-time writer.