Ann Schlee

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Ann Schlee


Born
in Greenwich, Connecticut, The United States
May 26, 1934

Died
November 01, 2023

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Ann Schlee was born in Connecticut in 1934 and spent parts of her childhood and adolescence in Egypt, Sudan, Khartoum, and Eritrea. She went to boarding school in England and read English at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1957 she married artist Nick Schlee, brought up their four children, and wrote five children’s novels, including The Vandal, which won the 1980 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Rhine Journey, the first of her novels for adults, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1981. Subsequently she combined her writing with teaching, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.

Average rating: 3.83 · 483 ratings · 104 reviews · 12 distinct works
Rhine Journey

3.86 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 1980 — 15 editions
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The Vandal

3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions
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Ask Me No Questions

3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions
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The Proprietor

3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1983 — 9 editions
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Laing

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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The Consul's daughter

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions
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The Time in Aderra

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The Strangers

4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions
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The Guns of Darkness

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1973 — 3 editions
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The Statues at Rousham Park

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“We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life.”
Ann Schlee