Robert Westall, English journalist and author (died 1993)

Robert Westall

English teacher and children's novelist (1929–1993)

Robert Atkinson Westall was an English author and teacher known for fiction aimed at children and young people. Some of the latter cover complex, dark, and adult themes. He has been called "the dean of British war novelists". His first book, The Machine Gunners, won the 1975…