Paul Dowswell

Paul Dowswell (1957)[1] is a British writer of nonfiction and young adult novels who has written over 70 books for British publishers. He was a senior editor at Usborne Publishing,[2] then went freelance in 1999.

Early life and education

Dowswell was born in 0 in Chester, England. He has a degree in history from Goldsmith's College, earned in 1978.[1]

Career

Dowswell worked for Time-Life Books, the Science Museum and the British Library Sound Archive before joining Usborne Publishing. Hew was a senior editor for eight years at Usborne. He is an instructor in creative writing at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, England.

Book awards

The Complete Book of the Microscope (with co-author Kirsteen Rogers) won the 1999 Rhône-Poulenc Junior Prize for Science Books.

Auslander won the Hamelin Associazione Culturale Book Prize, Bologna, The Portsmouth Book Award, The Essex Book Award, Calderdale Book of the Year, The Cheshire Schools Book Award and the We Read Book Award over 2010-2012.

Sektion 20 won the Historical Association Young Quills Award 2012

Eleven Eleven won the Historical Association Young Quills Award 2013 [3]

Personal

Dowswell lives in Wolverhampton. He is married and they have one daughter. He is a musician and plays with bands at pubs and clubs in the West Midlands.

gollark: <@542811977383280662> Talking in <#482370338324348932> is annoying so I'll say it here: the current state of brain interaction stuff seems to be at the level of just hamfistedly meddling with large regions of the brain, not anything targeted enough to make people "super intelligent".
gollark: As far as I'm aware the way that works is that you can profit off it being worse than *other people predicted*, not just bad.
gollark: I hope we can all agree that anarchoprimitivism is very stupid, at least.
gollark: ...
gollark: I have temperature readings up, and it says 85 degrees, which is pretty safe.

References
  1. "Dowswell, Paul 1957- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  2. "Paul Dowswell". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  3. "Paul Dowswell Awards and Reviews". Pauldowswell.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-04-07.



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