Mark Burgess (children's author)
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Mark Burgess in 2009
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| Born | Mark Simon Burgess 26 April 1957 Chislehurst |
| Pen name | Simon Goswell (two books only) |
| Occupation | Artist, Writer, Computer Programmer |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater |
Christ's Hospital Slade School of Fine Art, B.A. |
| Genre | children's literature |
| Spouse | Rosemary J. Benson. |
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Mark Burgess (born 26 April 1957; pen name Simon Goswell for two books) is best known as an English author and illustrator of children's literature. He has illustrated books by Tony Bradman and Martin Waddell. Among his most recent assignments, he illustrated Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the authorized sequel of Winnie-the-Pooh.
Burgess also designs greeting cards and is a computer programmer. Additionally, Burgess has colored and adapted the newer editions of various classic children's books that were drawn by the late E. H. Shepard and Peggy Fortnum.
Mark Simon Burgess was born in Chislehurst on 26 April 1957 to John Frederick Orchard Burgess and Mona Goswell. He was the third child among his four siblings. He attended boarding school at Christ's Hospital in Sussex, England from 1968-74 in the Middleton B house.
In 1975, Burgess began studying at the Slade School of Fine Art of the University College London. Graduating from there with a B.A. in Fine Art in 1979, he began working as a freelance author and illustrator of children's books, magazines and greetings cards (of which he has designed over 500). He also briefly worked at the London Zoo as well as in a library in Cambridge.
The first book Burgess illustrated is Martin Waddell's Harriet and the Crocodiles, published in 1983.
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