John Rowe Townsend

John Rowe Townsend (19 May 1922 – 24 March 2014) was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series, Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature (1965),[1] the definitive work of its time on the subject.[2][3] It was greatly expanded for the first revised edition as Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's Literature (1974) and updated for its 2nd to 4th revised editions in 1983, 1987, and 1990 – the last, "A survey of imaginative writing, including poetry and picture books, accompanied by a bibliography of works on children's literature and illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989." (OCLC 25630220).

  1. ^ "Written for Children (1965): ...". Fantastic Fiction (fantasticfiction.co.uk). Retrieved 2014-03-27.
      Without change in title date (1965), the text concerns a "revised and updated edition", probably that of May 1996, perhaps with 2003 postscript ("Edition: 6 Sub" at Amazon).
  2. ^ Hunt, Peter (1990). An Introduction to Children's Literature. Routledge. p. 57.
  3. ^ Sutton, Roger (26 March 2014). "John Rowe Townsend". The Horn Book (hbook.com). Retrieved 27 March 2014.