Jack Sheffield

Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds[1]) is a British author who wrote a series of novels about the headmaster of a school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time.

For the English amateur footballer, see Jack Sheffield (footballer).

He grew up in Gipton in Leeds,[2] trained as a teacher at St John's College, York and later became head teacher of two schools in North Yorkshire and then senior lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall.[2][3] He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel Teacher, Teacher! sold 100,000 copies.[3] In 2016 he was awarded the honorary title of Cultural Fellow of York St John University.[4]

Books
  • Teacher, Teacher! (2007[5])
  • Mister Teacher (2008)
  • Dear Teacher (2009)
  • Village Teacher (2010)
  • Please Sir! (2011)
  • Educating Jack (2012)
  • School's Out (2013)
  • Silent Night (2013)
  • Star Teacher (2015)
  • Happiest Days (2017)
  • Starting Over (2018)
  • Changing Times (2019)
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References
  1. "Fun of a teacher man". Yorkshire Evening Post. 30 September 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. "The Yorkshire Teacher novels - Jack Sheffield". Yorkshire Post. 18 May 2007. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  3. Greenway, Tony (14 February 2010). "Teachers author Jack Sheffield talks to Yorkshire Life". Yorkshire Life. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. "Paperback Writer: insights from author Jack Sheffield". York St John University. 2 March 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  5. "Books". Jack Sheffield. Retrieved 10 February 2019.

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