![]() ![]() His final novel was The Rogue Crew, which was published posthumously in 2011. Jacques, working more in the vein of his Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales than his Redwall fantasies, offers up a half dozen short horror/morality tales. He originally wrote Redwall for blind children he met when he was delivering milk, but it got attention when his former English teacher Alan Durband (who had also taught Paul McCartney and George Harrison) showed it to his publisher and told them they’d be “foolish not to publish it.” Jacques passed away in February 2011 due to a heart attack.īrian Jacques became a published novelist with the novel Redwall, published in 1986. ![]() Despite his French-looking last name (which is actually pronounced “Jakes”), his family has never been able to find any record of having French ancestry. Redwall, Mossflower and Mattimeo have won the. Brian grew up in Liverpool, where as a boy, his father read him the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Redwall, Mossflower and Salamandastron have each won the Lancashire Libraries Childrens Book of the Year Award. ![]() Brian Jacques (1939-2011) was an English author of children’s fantasy novels. ![]()
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