Charles Dickens final incomplete novel, with an ending written by Leon Garfield.
Charles Dickens (Author)
Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His
father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but
often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years
old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family
had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of
fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to
appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial
success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist
began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity
Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity
in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870.
He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Leon Garfield (Author)
Leon Garfield was born in Brighton in 1921. He was the acclaimed
author of more than thirty novels for children and adults including
Devil in the Fog, winner of the inaugural Guardian Children's
Fiction Prize in 1967, The God Beneath the Sea, winner of the 1970
Carnegie Medal, and John Diamond, winner of the 1980 Whitbread
literary award. He was also elected a member of the Royal Society
of Literature. He died in 1996.
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