Brian Jacques (edit name/settings)

starwolvie approved WaitingForVira’s request to combine 2 contributors, including Brian Jacques, Sunday, November 11, 2012.

WaitingForVira submitted a request to combine 2 contributors, including Brian Jacques, Tuesday, October 30, 2012.

Travis Siegel edited the bio of Brian Jacques Sunday, March 25, 2012.

• Edited Official Website: http://www.redwall.orghttp://www.redwallabbey.com

Daniel edited the bio of Brian Jacques Saturday, August 13, 2011.

• Edited Nationality: EnglishBritish

Daniel edited the bio of Brian Jacques Saturday, August 13, 2011.

• Edited Legal Name: James Brian Jacques
• Edited Place of Birth: ,Liverpool,EnglandLiverpool,Merseyside,England

Daniel edited the summary of Brian Jacques Saturday, August 13, 2011.

•  Brian Jacques (pronounced "jakes") was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. Along with forty percent of the population of Liverpool, his ancestral roots are in Ireland, County Cork to be exact. He grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks. His interest in adventure stories began at an early age with reading the books of many different authors including Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, and Sir Henry Rider Haggard, to name but a few.
  
  He attended St. John's School, an inner city school that had its playground on the roof. On his first day at St. John's, at the age of ten, he had an experience that marked his potential as a writer. When given an assignment of writing a story about animals, he wrote about the bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The teacher could not, and would not believe that a ten year old could write that well. When young Brian refused to falsely say that he had copied the story, he was caned as "a liar". He had always loved to write, but it was only then, that he realized that he had a talent for writing.
  
  Some teachers at St. John's proved to be good role models. As Mr. Jacques recalls:
  
  "My favourite teacher was Mr. Austin Thomas. He looked like Lee Marvin. Big Man. A Captain in World War II. He came to school on a big push bike with the haversack on back. He was a man's man. Always fair. I was fourteen at the time when Mr. Thomas introduced the class to poetry and Greek literature. (Because of him, I saved seven shillings and sixpence to buy The Iliad and The Odyssey at this dusty used book shop.)" This interest in poetry extended to Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Goldsmith.
  
  It was also at St. John's that Brian met a teacher, Alan Durband (who also taught two Beatles, Paul McCartney and George Harrison), who, more than thirty years later would bring about a major change in his life.
  
  After Brian finished school at fifteen, he set out to find adventure as a merchant seaman. He travelled to many far away ports, including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a bobby (Police Constable 216D), a postmaster, and a stand-up comic.
  
  He has written 21 books within the Redwall series. There are also Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales, the Ribbajack, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, the Angel's Command,  and Voyage of Slaves. There may be more outside the Redwall series and accompanying books.

Daniel edited the overview of Brian Jacques Saturday, August 13, 2011.

• Brian Jacques (pronounced "jakes") was born in Liverpool, England on June 15th, 1939. He grew up in the area around the Liverpool docks. His interest in adventure stories began at an early age with reading the books of many different authors including Arthur Conan Doyle, Kenneth Grahame, and Sir Henry Rider Haggard.
  After Brian finished school at fifteen, he set out to find adventure as a merchant seaman. He traveled to many far away ports, including New York, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Yokohama. Tiring of the lonely life of a sailor, he returned to Liverpool where he worked as a railway fireman, a longshoreman, a long-distance truck driver, a bus driver, a boxer, a Police Constable, a postmaster, and a stand-up comic.
  Brian began writing Redwall for the children at the Royal Wavertree School for the Blind in Liverpool, where as a truck driver, he delivered milk. Because of the nature of his first audience, he made his style of writing as descriptive as possible, painting pictures with words so that the schoolchildren could see them in their imaginations.
  Jacques wrote 22 books within the Redwall series. He also wrote, Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales, the Ribbajack, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, the Angel's Command, and Voyage of Slaves. He died on February 5th 2011.

Ross approved Libeary Mery’s request to combine 2 contributors, including Brian Jacques, Friday, March 4, 2011.

Libeary Mery submitted a request to combine 2 contributors, including Brian Jacques, Tuesday, February 8, 2011.

Libeary Mery edited the bio of Brian Jacques Tuesday, February 8, 2011.

• Edited Date of Death: February 7,5, 2011