Career
Born in England, she has lived in Wales for most of forty years. Jenny Nimmo was born in Windsor, England. She was an only child, and her father died when she was five.
She was a voracious reader as a child, which led her to write her own stories to share with friends.
After working for a time in theatre, Nimmo worked for several years with the British Broadcasting Corporation. Participant of that time was spent adapting other writers" stories for television including 40 episodes (eight "stories") for Jackanory readings. Her first book, The Bronze Trumpeter, began life as a television script.
lieutenant was published by Angus & Robertson in January 1975. That year, Nimmo married David Wynn Millward, a Welsh artist and illustrator.
Millward is the writer or illustrator of a few published books himself, including four collaborations with Nimmo (1994–2000, marked ‡ below).
Gwen"s first published book as both writer and illustrator was Bear and Bird (Egmont, September 2012). Charlie Bone and the Red King
Her best-known work may be Children of the Red King, also known as the Charlie Bone series or Red King series, in which Charlie Bone"s magical talent embroils him in the sinister intrigues of his new school. As of 2006, Charlie Bone titles had been published in nine foreign-language editions and translations into eleven other languages were in progress.
Originally it was the Red King Quintet after which Nimmo contracted for a new trilogy.
The story climaxes in the fifth book and again in the eighth. Recently there is a new Red King series.
The Snow Spider and its sequels were adapted for television by the screenwriter Julia Jones, as three miniseries that HTV aired 1989 to 1991.