Edmund Wallace Hildick
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Edmund Wallace Hildick was a prolific children's book author, who wrote under the name E. W. Hildick. He wrote, amongst others, the Ghost Squad, Jim Starling
, Birdy Jones, Jack McGurk
and Lemon Kelly series.
He started writing while he was a teacher in a Secondary Modern school at Dewsbury
in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England, his intended audience being "tough, modern kids similar to the ones I teach". He died in London
England.
Jim Starling
Jim Starling is the central character of a series of seven books for young people written by Edmund Wallace Hildick. Each book in the series details an episode in the lives of four close friends, Jim, Terry, Nip and Goggles, who call themselves the Last Apple Gang...
, Birdy Jones, Jack McGurk
Jack McGurk
Jonathon Prudence "Jack" McGurk is a fictional boy detective in a series of novels by Edmund Wallace Hildick.The group of pre-teen detectives is led by 10-year-old Jack P. McGurk. Members of the McGurk Detective Agency included Joey Rockaway, Willie “The Nose” Sandowskey, Wanda Greig, “Brains”...
and Lemon Kelly series.
Background
He was born in Bradford, England in 1925. After two years service in the RAF he became a secondary school teacher, then a writer, before moving to the United States to become editor of a literary magazine. He was one of the very few British juvenile authors of his generation to achieve success in America.He started writing while he was a teacher in a Secondary Modern school at Dewsbury
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...
in the West Riding of Yorkshire in England, his intended audience being "tough, modern kids similar to the ones I teach". He died in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
England.