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Michael Bond.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1926

Michael Bond (1926–2017): canonical British author of Paddington Bear and Olga da Polga — gentle, polite, quietly subversive children's writing across sixty years.

Michael Bond (1926–2017) was a British author best known as the creator of Paddington Bear, the long-running picture-book and chapter-book franchise about a polite Peruvian bear with a marmalade habit, beginning with A Bear Called Paddington (1958). The Paddington books have been continually in print for over sixty years, with multiple film adaptations and BBC animations. Bond also wrote The Tales of Olga da Polga (about a guinea pig) and the Monsieur Pamplemousse adult mystery series. His voice is gentle, polite, quietly subversive about adult manners. A canonical-classic British children's author.