University of Exeter

After highschool in Oak Park (where every one of the 750 students in her graduating class was white), she attended the conservative, undemanding Hanover College , where most of her attention was given to boys...

She sat the entrance exams for admission to Oxford , and got as far as being placed on a waiting list. She was rejected after the A-level results came through (although she got two A's...

From the council school PB gained entrance to grammar school, from which in turn she won a place at Exeter University , where she took a first-class BA in English. Later she came to feel...

SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...

Other writings by JKR include a piece for Pegasus, the Exeter University classics department magazine, and another, published in the Sun, about the work of the National Council for One Parent Families (now...

AJ 's first community play began as a school production. She approached the headmaster of the local comprehensive in Lyme Regis, offering to write a play for the school. When she presented her play...

MS was still well enough known in the early 1950s for an irreverent take-off entitled Grin and Bear It, featuring cartoons by Joan Stanton , to be an attractive proposition for a newly launched...

Unanticipated responses to Harry Potter have included attack from some Christian groups, mostly in the USA, which bizarrely suppose that the books proselytize in favour of magic, which is held to be the work...

Commenting on her own work, SK has cited Christina Rossetti saying that in a poet, the ear dictates and the mouth listens. She adds: What fascinates me most is to discover the curious and humorous...

AC , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award (1954), the degree of DLitt from the University of Exeter (1961), and a letter addressed simply...

SD 's plays have been staged around the world: in Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt have discussed her as an example of...

MW received her first honorary degrees: an Honorary DLitt from Exeter University and an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University .