Brian Jacques

Brian Jacques was born in Liverpool, England on June 15, 1939. Besides being an author, he's held several jobs over the years, as a stand-up comedian, a docker, a long-distance lorry driver, postmaster, boxer, and many others. His first book, Redwall, was discovered in the mid-1980s by one of his teachers from when he was in school, Alan Durband. Now, to this day, he has 16 original Redwall novels released, along with several other non-Redwall novels. He still lives in Liverpool to this day.