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Terry Pratchett.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1948

Sir Terry Pratchett: creator of the Discworld series and of major middle-grade / YA fantasy (Tiffany Aching, Bromeliad, Johnny Maxwell) — warm, gleefully clever, morally serious comic fantasy.

Sir Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was a British author best known as the creator of the Discworld series, the long-running comic fantasy novels for adults that became one of the bestselling and most beloved adult-fantasy properties of the late twentieth century. His children's-book output is narrower but significant: The Carpet People, the Bromeliad / Nome trilogy (Truckers, Diggers, Wings), the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, and the Tiffany Aching books set within Discworld (The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, The Shepherd's Crown). Posthumously, his short-story collections for children (Dragons at Crumbling Castle, The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner, Tales of Time and Space, etc.) have been collected and illustrated by Mark Beech. Pratchett's voice is warm, gleefully clever, morally serious. A core older-middle-grade and YA fantasy author.