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Philippa Pearce
Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time slip fantasy novel ''Tom's Midnight Garden'', which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject.〔 Pearce was four further times a commended runner-up for the Medal.〔
==Early life==
The youngest of four children of a flour miller and corn merchant, Ernest Alexander Pearce, and his wife Gertrude Alice, née Ramsden, Philippa Pearce was born in the village of Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire and brought up there on the River Cam at the Mill House.〔Biography on the flyleaf of a 1987 reprint of the Puffin Books edition of her first children's novel, ''Minnow on the Say''; ODNB entry by Nicholas Tucker (retrieved 22 July 2013. Pay/walled. )〕 Starting school late at the age of eight because of illness, she was educated at the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, and went on to Girton College, Cambridge on a scholarship to read English and History there.
After gaining her degree, Pearce moved to London, where she found work as a civil servant. She wrote and produced schools radio programmes for the BBC, where she remained for 13 years. She was a children's editor at the Oxford University Press from 1958 to 1960 and at the André Deutsch publishing firm from 1960 to 1967.
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