- L S Matthews
L S Matthews (born
August 29 ,1964 ) is the pen name of Laura Dron, a Britishchildren's author of several critically-acclaimednovels .Background
She was born near
Dudley in the West Midlands inEngland , youngest of five children of parents from the South West who had moved to the industrial area for work. She attendedstate school there, leaving at 18 to study English Literature atGoldsmiths College, University of London , where she gained a first classhonours degree .Matthews lived and worked in
London for six years and has also lived in Hull in Northern England, the West Midlands,Alsace in Northern France andHertfordshire .Matthews currently resides in
Dorset with her husband and two children.Publications
Her first novel, Fish (2003), won the Fidler Award and was also Highly Commended for the
Branford Boase Award and nominated for aCarnegie Medal . Her other novels are The Outcasts (2004), A Dog For Life (2006), Lexi (2007) and After The Flood (2008). Matthews also wrote two short SEN titles, Deadly Night and The Game, which were both published in 2006.All titles are published by
Hodder & Stoughton .External links
* [http://www.lsmatthewsonline.co.uk Official website]
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