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Gene Kemp née Rushton (27 December 1926 – 4th January 2015) was a British author best known for her children's books. Her first novel, ''The Pride of Tamworth Pig'' was published in 1972. She won the British Carnegie Medal for ''The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler'' (1977).〔 ==Background== Gene Kemp was born in Wiggington, Staffordshire in 1926〔 grew up near Tamworth, Staffordshire, and went to Exeter University. She became a teacher and taught at St Sidwell's School in Exeter in the 1970s. From 1972 she wrote stories for young writers about a pig named Tamworth, named after the town she grew up in. Her best known book is ''The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler'', published by Faber's Children's Books in 1977. Set in the fictional Cricklepit School, it charts the pleasures and pains of friendship and growing up. There are several Cricklepit books including ''Snaggletooth's Mystery'', an alternative history of the school, and ''Gowie Corby Plays Chicken'', set one year after ''The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler'' and referencing Tyke in several chapters. Kemp has written ghost stories and fantasy as well as realistic fiction like ''Seriously Weird'' which is told from the perspective of the sister of a young man with Asperger syndrome. She has also turned her work into plays, the most successful and well-known of which is ''Charlie Lewis Plays for Time'', another Cricklepit story. Gene Kemp was awarded an Honorary MA from Exeter University in 1984. She lived in Exeter and has three children and three grandchildren. On Kemp died at the age of 88 in January 2015 (the 4th or 6th).〔http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/Carnegie-prize-winning-Exeter-author-teacher-Gene/story-25831133-detail/story.html〕〔http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/13/gene-kemp-obituary〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gene Kemp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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