Record ID:
35035492 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 80050425
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1927-12-16
  • Livingstone (Zambia)
Death:
  • 2015-12-16
  • Winchester (England)
Associated with:
  • Great Britain
Lived/located in:
  • Hampshire (England)
Fields of activity:
  • Detective and mystery stories Children's stories Fantasy fiction
Occupations:
  • Novelists Poets
Notes:
  • His The glass-sided ants' nest, 1968.
  • A bone from a dry sea, 1993 t.p. (Peter Dickinson) jkt. (b. in what is now Zambia)
  • His The green gene, 1973 title-page (Peter Dickinson) dust jacket (Peter Dickinson; used to be on the staff of Punch before becoming a full-time novelist; he has written five books around the career and retirement pursuits of Detective Superintendent Jimmy Pibble; also wrote the distinguished children's novels, The weathermonger, Heartsease, The devil's children, Emma Tupper's Diary, and The gift)
  • Wikipedia, May 19, 2015 (Peter Dickinson; Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (born 16 December 1927); prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories; born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia; nationality: British; education: Eton College (1941-1946); Alma mater: King's College, Cambridge (1948-51)) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dickinson
  • Author's website, May 19, 2015 about Peter page (he and his second wife, the American writer Robin McKinley, live in [Hampshire] an almost-too-pretty country town in the south of England) http://peterdickinson.com/about-peter
  • New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 18, 2015 (in obituary published Dec. 17: Peter Dickinson; Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson; b. Dec. 16, 1927, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia); when he was 7, the family returned to Britain; d. Wednesday [Dec. 16, 2015], Winchester, aged 88; award-winning British mystery writer whose books for adults and children often crossed the boundaries separating the genres of crime, adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and suspense)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)540642
  • abv00119881
  • 000000035671
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC OCoLC UPB PSt IEN DLC
Authentication code:
  • kin