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John Rowe Townsend (19 May 1922 – 24 March 2014) was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series, Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature (1965), the definitive work of its time on the subject.

He was born in Leeds, and studied at Leeds Grammar School and Emmanuel College John Rowe Townsend (born 1922) is a British children's author and academic

He was born in Leeds, and studied at Leeds Grammar School and Emmanuel College John Rowe Townsend (born 1922) is a British children's author and academic. He was born in Leeds, and studied at Leeds Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

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Abandoned by their uncle and aunt, Kevin and Sandra run away to Gumble's Yard, a deserted row of cottages on the canal bank. But the cottages are not as empty as they thought. Strange people come and go, mysterious boxes keep arriving, and the children soon find themselves caught up in a dangerous chain of events.

Gumble's Yard, with its depiction of a. .Gumble's Yard by John Rowe Townsend. Meanwhile, his own novels – Gumble's Yard, The Intruder (1969), Noah's Castle (1975) – were being serialised on television and winning awards.

Gumble's Yard, with its depiction of a working-class life that sometimes skirted the law and deliberately uncosy ending, flung open a door that before the second world war Geoffrey Trease had pushed ajar, through which eventually the sociological activists of the 80s – anti-racist, anti-sexist – could march. The Intruder was shortlisted for the American Carnegie Medal and won the Boston Globe-Horn Book award and the Edgar award for juvenile mystery.

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