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- Birth nameJames Brian Jacques
- Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. Besides being an author, he's held several jobs over the years, as a stand-up comedian, a docker, a long-distance lorry driver, postmaster, boxer, and many others. His first book, Redwall, was discovered in the mid-1980s by one of his teachers from when he was in school, Alan Durband. Now, to this day, he has 16 original Redwall novels released, along with several other non-Redwall novels. He still lives in Liverpool to this day.
- IMDb mini biography by: Zan (zandusku)
- His last name is pronounced jakes.
- He began his professional writing career as a playwright. He wrote three plays that were performed at the Everyman theater in Liverpool: "Brown Bitter," "Scouse," and "Wet Nellies." One of the child actors performing in those plays was Craig Charles, who later starred in the hit British TV series Red Dwarf (1988).
- Has just released his 16th Redwall novel, Loamhedge, in hardback edition.
- Recalling one of his favorite teachers as a teenager: "My favourite teacher was Mr. Austin Thomas. He looked like Lee Marvin. Big Man. A Captain in World War II. He came to school on a big bush bike with the haversack on back. He was a man's man. Always fair. I was fourteen at the time when Mr. Thomas introduced the class to poetry and Greek literature. (Because of him, I saved seven shillings and sixpence to buy The Iliad and The Odyssey at this dusty used book shop.)"
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