Helen Nicoll | |
Birth Date: | 10 October 1937 |
Birth Place: | Natland, Westmorland (now Cumbria, England, UK |
Death Place: | Marlborough, Wiltshire, England |
Occupation: | Writer |
Spouse: | Robert Kime, m. 1970 |
Nationality: | British |
Education: | Badminton School Dartington Hall |
Genre: | Children's fantasy novels |
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Helen Nicoll (10 October 1937 – 30 September 2012) was an English author of children's books. She is best known for the Meg and Mog series. In total, she wrote 17 books. She worked with Jan Pienkowski (illustrator) for more than forty years on her books. In 1983, she founded an audiobook company called Cover to Cover.[1] It was bought by BBC Worldwide in 2000.
She was educated at Blackwell and then Badminton School in Bristol.[2] For a year she studied the violin at Dartington Hall in Devon.
Helen married Robert Kime, an interior designer and antique dealer, in 1970. They had a daughter and a son.