Jan Mark
Jan Mark was born in Hertfordshire during the Second World War and was a secondary teacher before becoming an award-winning author. She won the Carnegie Medal twice for her novels Thunder and Lightnings and Handles . Jan had a very traditional writing method - she would write her first draft by hand, and her following drafts on an old typewriter. Jan died suddenly in 2006.
Jan Mark was born in Hertfordshire during the Second World War and was a secondary teacher before becoming an award-winning author. She won the Carnegie Medal twice for her novels Thunder and Lightnings and Handles . Jan had a very traditional writing method - she would write her first draft by hand, and her following drafts on an old typewriter. Jan died suddenly in 2006. See less
