Michael Morpurgo

Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE
Morpurgo at a Paris book fair in March 2009
Born	Michael Andrew Bridge (1943-10-05) 5 October 1943 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London
Notable works	War Horse, Why the Whales Came, Private Peaceful
Notable awards	OBE MBE
Spouse	Clare Morpurgo MBE
Children	3
Website
www.michaelmorpurgo.com

Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo OBE (born 5 October 1943) is a British writer. Michael Morpurgo grew up in London during a war there. He was a teacher, but the book Poetry in the Making by Ted Hughes, made him decide to write instead of teaching. He is the author of over one hundred books, mostly for children, many of which have given many prizes and awards. Five of his books have been made into films. My Friend Walter (1988) and Out of the Ashes (2001) have both been made into television.

Works

• It Never Rained: Five Stories (1974)
• Living Poets (compiler with Clifford Simmons) (1974)
• Long Way Home (1975)
• Thatcher Jones (1975)
• The Story-Teller (compiler with Graham Barrett) (1976)
• Friend or Foe (1977)
• Do All You Dare (1978)
• What Shall We Do with It? (1978)
• All Around the Year (with Ted Hughes) (1979)
• Love at First Sight (1979)
• That's How (1979)
• The Day I Took the Bull By the Horn (1979)
• The Ghost-Fish (1979)
• The Marble Crusher and Other Stories (1980)
• The Nine Lives of Montezuma (1980)
• Miss Wirtle's Revenge (1981)
• The White Horse of Zennor: And Other Stories from below the Eagle's Nest (1982)
• War Horse (1982)
• Twist of Gold (1983)
• Little Foxes (1984)
• Why the Whales Came (1985)
• Words of Songs (libretto, music by Phyllis Tate) (1985)
• Tom's Sausage Lion (1986)
• Conker (1987)
• Jo-Jo, the Melon Monkey (1987)
• King of the Cloud Forests (1988)
• Mossop's Last Chance (with Shoo Rayner) (1988)
• My Friend Walter (1988)
• Albertine, Goose Queen (with Shoo Rayner) (1989)
• Mr. Nobody's Eyes (1989)
• Jigger's Day Off (with Shoo Rayner) (1990)
• Waiting for Anya (1990)
• And Pigs Might Fly! (with Shoo Rayner) (1991)
• Colly's Barn (1991)
• The Sandman and the Turtles (1991)
• Martians at Mudpuddle Farm (with Shoo Rayner) (1992)
• The King in the Forest (1993)
• The War of Jenkins' Ear (1993)
• Arthur, High King of Britain (1994)
• Snakes and Ladders (1994)
• The Dancing Bear (1994)
• Blodin the Beast (1995)
• Mum's the Word (with Shoo Rayner) (1995)
• Stories from Mudpuddle Farm (with Shoo Rayner) (1995)
• The Wreck of the Zanzibar (1995)
• Robin of Sherwood (1996)
• Sam's Duck (1996)
• The Butterfly Lion (1996)
• The Ghost of Grania O'Malley (1996)
• Farm Boy (1997)
• Cockadoodle-doo, Mr Sultana! (1998)
• Escape from Shangri-La (1998)
• Joan of Arc (1998)
• Red Eyes at Night (1998)
• Wartman (1998)
• Kensuke's Kingdom (1999)
• The Rainbow Bear (1999)
• Wombat Goes Walkabout (1999)
• Billy the Kid (2000)
• Black Queen (2000)
• Dear Olly (2000)
• From Hereabout Hill (2000)
• The Silver Swan (2000)
• More Muck and Magic (2001)
• Out of the Ashes (2001)
• Toro! Toro! (2001)
• Cool! (2002)
• Mr. Skip (2002)
• The Last Wolf (2002)
• The Sleeping Sword (2002)
• Gentle Giant (2003)
• Private Peaceful (2003)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2004)
• I Believe in Unicorns (2005)
• The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (2005)
• Albatross (2006)
• It's a Dog's Life (2006)
• Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea (2006)
• Born to Run (2007)
• Running Wild (2009)