Meriol Trevor

Meriol Trevor (15 April 1919 – 12 January 2000) was a British Roman Catholic writer of children's books, historical novels and biographies.

Her two-volume biography of Cardinal Newman won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1963.

[1] She was educated at Perse Girls' School, Cambridge and St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied classics and philosophy.

[2] Her children's books strongly reflect her Catholic faith, presenting themes of conflict and redemption often in mythic form.

A number of her historical novels are set in Romano-Britain and early Christian Europe.