Lesley Howarth, Date of Birth

Lesley Howarth

British children's writer

Date of Birth: 29-Dec-1952

Profession: writer, children's writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Lesley Howarth (born 29 December 1952) is a British author of children's and young adult fiction.
For the novel Maphead, published by Walker Books in 1994, she won the annual Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a runner-up for the Carnegie Medal.Howarth was born in Bournemouth, England. Reviewers including Philip Pullman have remarked upon Howarth's ability to "humanize" highly technical or unusual subjects, a tendency which she calls "the romance of hard things".