Beth Lincoln

Beth Lincoln is an English children's writer best known for her debut mystery novel, The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller and won the Nero Book Award for Children’s Fiction. She is from Durham, England, and studied English literature at the University of Sussex before earning a master's degree in Creative Writing from Newcastle University.

Durham, England, United Kingdom Feb 1, 1992 Wikipedia
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