Samuel Youd

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English writer (1922-2012)

United Kingdom WritersLived 1922 to 2012 · aged 89

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Sam Youd was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods. He won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1971 and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.

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Christopher's novel The Year of the Comet saw its first U.S. publication in the August 1957 issue of Satellite Science Fiction

Christopher's novella "A World of Slaves" was the cover story on the March 1959 issue of Satellite Science Fiction

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1971Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

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Cornel WildeAlso in No Blade of Grass (1970)

Wendy RichardAlso in No Blade of Grass (1970)

John LewisAlso in No Blade of Grass (1970)

Lynne FrederickAlso in No Blade of Grass (1970)

Nigel DavenportAlso in No Blade of Grass (1970)

Diana Wynne JonesAlso won Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

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