Brian alderson biography

Unlike other scholars and specialists in children's literature, Brian had an unconventional entry in and course through his connections with the subject. Brian has provided the following synopsis, which he says 'gives evidence of a largely unprofessional career governed largely by happenstance and an amateur involvement with journalism and bibliography':

1930 Born at Bush Hill Park, Enfield, Middlesex

1935-9 Schooling at Keble House Preparatory School, Winchmore Hill, followed by a period of evacuated rambling

1941-48 Schooling at the Society of Friends' School at Ackworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, followed by brief employment at Bumpus's Bookshop in Oxford Street, London

1949-52 Undergraduate at the University College of the South-West, Exeter, at that time reading for the external examinations at the University of London.

Brian (just) gained a third-class honours degree in German, but through the vagaries of the system at that time, passed subsidiary e