Vivien Alcock (23 September 1924 – 11 October 2003) was an English writer of children's books.
[citation needed] Alcock was born in Worthing, now in West Sussex, England, and her family moved to Devizes in Wiltshire when she was ten years old.
[1] Alcock studied at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing until 1942, when she left the program to join the women's branch of the British Army (Auxiliary Territorial Service).
Her own first book published was The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, from Methuen in 1980 when she was 56 years old.
[1] The Cuckoo Sister (1985) and The Monster Garden (1988) are her two most widely held works as catalogued by WorldCat libraries.