Angel Isle

About the Author

Peter Dickinson is the author of many books for adults and young readers and has won numerous awards, including the Carnegie Medal (twice), the Guardian Award, and the Whitbread Award (also twice). The Ropemaker was a Michael L. Printz Honor Book for excellence in young adult literature, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and winner of the Mythopoeic Society Children’s Fantasy Award. Dickinson’s novel Eva was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction Honor Book. Eva was also selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, as were Dickinson’s novels AK and A Bone from a Dry Sea. His most recent book for Random House was Inside Grandad. Peter Dickinson has four grown children and lives in Hampshire, England, with his wife, the writer Robin McKinley.