Glyn Parry (author)

Glyn Parry is an Australian writer of children's literature, young-adult fiction, and speculative fiction.

Biography

Parry was born in 1959 in the north-east of England. At the age of 12 he moved to Lynwood, Western Australia where he attended Kinlock Primary School and then Rossmoyne Senior High School. Parry met his wife at a Friday night youth group with whom he raised three children. He has worked as a high school English teacher. In 1992 Parry's first novel was published entitled L.A. Postcards. In 1995 his second novel Radical Take-offs won the Premier's Prize and the award for best Children's & Young Adult's Books at the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. Parry again won an award at the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards with his work Scooterboy winning the Young Adults Award. He is now currently living in Cape Burney, Western Australia.

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Novels

Glyn Parry

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Glyn Parry (historian)

Glyndwr John Robert Parry (GJR Parry) FRHistS was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire on October 31, 1953. He attended the University of Cambridge, gaining with a PhD in History in 1981. In 1987 he published A Protestant Vision: William Harrison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England with Cambridge University Press. As of 2010, he is a senior lecturer in history at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.

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