Gwen Grant[1][2][3] is an English writer primarily known for her works for children and young adults and is the author of seventeen published novels and picture books.
In addition to her contributions as a writer, Gwen Grant has also done important outreach work in schools, stimulating interest in reading and creative writing in children by leading individually crafted classes and seminars.
Her early life and experiences were strongly impacted by the poverty of a miner's family and what she heard and observed of the dangerous working conditions of the "pit", as the mines were commonly known, and by the deprivations and strains of the war.
For an anthology of women's writing published in the United States, she wrote, Although I am English, having been born and raised in Worksop,[3] a small town in Nottinghamshire, the words that have always meant a lot to me come from the American Declaration of Independence of 1776: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.'
I wanted to be a writer and because my parents believed that all men are created equal and taught that to their children, I set out full of hope and confidence until I made my dream a reality.