His mother, Filomena Viladecàs i Planas, was a worker in the local textile factory, and his father, Jaume Teixidó i Corominas, drove a bus.

[1] Emili Teixidor attended the local school, which had mixed age groups, and he began a lifelong friendship with Miquel Martí i Pol, who was four years older.

However, unlike Martí i Pol, who had to leave school at the age of 12 in order to work in a textile factory, Teixidor was able to continue his education.

After his father’s death in 1948, he was granted a scholarship and he moved to Barcelona, where he studied to be a teacher and then took a degree in law, to be followed by another in philosophy and literature, and finally one in journalism.

Emili Teixidor began writing for young people in the late 1960’s in the belief that there was a need for novels which did not express the ideology of the Franco regime and the Catholic church and moreover were also written in Catalan.