WILLIAM TAYLOR is the author of over thirty novels, including the award-winning Agnes the Sheep, the Knitwits series, Possum Perkins and The Blue Lawn.
He has won the New Zealand Esther Glen Medal, the Aim Children’s Book Award and the prestigious Italian Premio Andersen Award for best children’s book of the year. He is also the recipient of the NZCBF Margaret Mahy Medal and has been a Writer in Residence at the Palmerston North College of Education, University of Iowa and the Dunedin College of Education.
Formerly a school teacher, William Taylor now makes his living as a writer of humorous and more serious fiction. He is the father of two sons, and has a grandson. He lives in a spectacular setting near Mt Ruapehu in the central North Island of New Zealand.