Alison Prince (26 March 1931 – 12 October 2019)[1][2] was a British children's writer, screenwriter and biographer, who settled on the Isle of Arran in Scotland.
She later took a postgraduate teaching diploma at Goldsmiths College, then taught art at the Elliott Comprehensive School, in Putney.
How's Business (1987), set in World War II, made the shortlist for the Nestle Smarties Book Prize.
The Sherwood Hero (1995) is a modern-day Robin Hood story for young adults, about a girl stealing a credit card from her father's client, drawing £100, attempting to hand it out to the poor in the streets of Glasgow, and then coping with the guilt.
[11] Mainly for adults, Prince wrote well-received biographies of Kenneth Grahame (1994, reissued 2009) and Hans Christian Andersen (1998), a collection of essays on formative thinking,[12] two booklets of poetry,[13] and two volumes of pieces that had originally appeared in a local Arran newspaper.
Alison Prince died on 12 October 2019, aged 88, having been ill for a number of years, which involved undergoing major heart surgery.