Aidan Chambers

Emerging from a modest upbringing near Chester-le-Street in County Durham, he struggled with reading until age nine, completed two years of National Service in the Royal Navy, then trained as a teacher before entering an Anglican monastery in 1960. Early theatrical work appeared while he taught at Archway School, and after leaving the monastery in 1967 he turned to freelance writing, producing the… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources