Dennis Hamley
Dennis Hamley was born in Kent and moved to Winslow, Bucks. He attended the Royal Latin School in Buckingham (1946-1954), and then the RAF National Service. Dennis went on to have a career in education (teacher, lecturer) before retiring early in 1992 to write full-time. His first novel was published in 1974 and he has written over sixty books, many for children. The idea for The Second Person from Porlock came from the discovery of a comment inserted in the text of Kubla Khan in the Old...See more
Dennis Hamley was born in Kent and moved to Winslow, Bucks. He attended the Royal Latin School in Buckingham (1946-1954), and then the RAF National Service. Dennis went on to have a career in education (teacher, lecturer) before retiring early in 1992 to write full-time. His first novel was published in 1974 and he has written over sixty books, many for children. The idea for The Second Person from Porlock came from the discovery of a comment inserted in the text of Kubla Khan in the Old Library, Jesus College, Cambridge. Its provenance is still unknown. See less
