Patrick Pringle

Patrick Pringle was an English author. Born in London England in 1917, he joined the editorial staff of a well-known London publisher at age seventeen and, as he says, “immediately began to write myself” out of a job. His first book for children was published when he was just 20 years old. Pringle served in the British Army for six years, with five years of his service being in the Middle East during World War II. After the war, Mr. Pringle devoted full-time to writing and then lived on the isle of Formentera in the Balearic Islands with his American wife and 2 children.