Brian Jacques

James Brian Jacques (born June 15, 1939) is an English author, best known for his Redwall series of fantasy books, as well as the Tribes of Redwall and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.

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Jacques (pronounced "jakes") was born in Liverpool, England, growing up in the area surrounding the docks of Liverpool. He is known as Brian because both his father and one of his brothers are called James.

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Jacques showed a knack for writing at an early age. At age ten, he was given an assignment of writing a story about animals, and he wrote about the bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. It was so good that his teacher refused to believe a boy could have written it and so had him caned for plagiarising a story. He had always loved to write, but it was only then, that he realized that he had a talent for writing. He attended St. John's School until the age of 15. It was at St. John's that Brian met a teacher, Alan Durband (who also taught Paul McCartney and George Harrison). After five years of school, he set out to find adventure as a merchant sailor. He travelled to many ports and eventually grew tired of being a sailor and returned to Liverpool, where he held a series of different jobs including stevedore, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, comic, boxer, and folksinger. He has also written three stage plays, 'Brown Bitter', 'Wet Nellies', and 'Scouse' to his credit. Redwall was written for the children of the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind. He first met them when he delivered milk there as a truck driver. He began to spend time with the children and eventually to write stories for them. He is considered a patron of the school. This accounts for the very descriptive style of the novel, and the ones to follow. He paints pictures with words so that even the blind can imagine the story. His script gained acclaim when Alan Durband, his childhood English teacher, showed it to a publisher without notifying Brian. This gave him the contract to write the next 5 books in the series.

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Redwall: Redwall is a series of fantasy novels by Brian Jacques, the first of which was released in 1986. The books are primarily aimed at children, but have fans of all ages. There is an animated TV series based on the books, the first season of which was released in 1999. It was later followed by two more ...

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