Jill Paton Walsh

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book , A Parcel of Patterns , the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels , and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor's Winding Sheet . She completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations , and continued Sayers's series with A Presumption of Death , The Attenbury...See more

Jill Paton Walsh (1937-2020) was an award-winning author of many books for children, young adults, and adults including The Green Book , A Parcel of Patterns , the Booker Prize shortlisted Knowledge of Angels , and the Whitbread Prize winner The Emperor's Winding Sheet . She completed Dorothy L. Sayers's unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane mystery manuscript, the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations , and continued Sayers's series with A Presumption of Death , The Attenbury Emeralds , and The Late Scholar . She held numerous posts connected to literature, including an Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship, acting as a Whitbread Prize judge, and serving on the committee of the Society of Authors. She contributed articles and reviews to many journals. In 1996 Walsh was awarded a CBE for services to literature and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. See less