FLOYD, Gareth

1940 - ?

Gareth Dennis Floyd was born at Whiston, Prescot, Lancashire in 1940, his mother's maiden name was Smith. He spent his childhood at Halesworth, Suffolk and studied at Lowestoft School of Arts and Crafts under Eleanor Doris Varley. Gareth Floyd is a published author and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books and illustrated a series for Penguin Books during the '70s and '80s. The credits of Gareth Floyd include 'The Whispering Knights', 'The Midnight Fox' (Puffin Modern Classics), 'The Real Live Dinosaur and Other Stories', and 'The Night-Watchmen' (Lythway Large Print Series) also working on Jackanory, a BBC TV children's story show, as an illustrator. He also has an interest in railways and modelling. He married at Guildford, Surrey in 1965 Penelope Dean and they lived at 32 Wodeland Avenue, Guildford. He was still living at Guildford in 2021.

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