Christopher Westwood (born 26 November 1959 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England) is an English author and journalist.
Born as the son of a coal miner and school teacher, he is best known as the author of young adult fiction and children's books.
[2] His first novel A Light In The Black, was published in 1989 by Penguin Books and became a runner-up for The Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.
His second young adult novel Calling All Monsters (1990), had film potential and was considered for adaptation by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and later DreamWorks.
[3] Westwood's other novels include Brother of Mine (1993),[4] a study of sibling rivalry between twins, Becoming Julia (1995), a taut thriller about a murder victim and her doppelgänger.