Tobias Druitt
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Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym
of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss
and Michael Dowling.
Diane Purkiss is a Tutor in English at Keble College
, Oxford University
, and she is the first Oxford English Faculty member since C. S. Lewis
and J. R. R. Tolkien
to publish a children's book.
Michael Dowling is Diane Purkiss' son, and is fifteen years old. Dowling is one of the subjects of the ongoing Channel 4
documentary series, Child Genius.
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss
Diane Purkiss
Diane Purkiss is Fellow and Tutor of English at Keble College, Oxford. She specialises in Renaissance and women's literature, witchcraft and the English Civil War....
and Michael Dowling.
Diane Purkiss is a Tutor in English at Keble College
Keble College, Oxford
Keble College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the University Museum and the University Parks. The college is bordered to the north by Keble Road, to the south by Museum Road, and to the west by Blackhall...
, Oxford University
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, and she is the first Oxford English Faculty member since C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
and J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
to publish a children's book.
Michael Dowling is Diane Purkiss' son, and is fifteen years old. Dowling is one of the subjects of the ongoing Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
documentary series, Child Genius.