Jack Sheffield
Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds[1]) is a British author who wrote a series of books of fiction about the headmaster of a village school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time.
He was trained as a teacher at St John's College, York and later became head teacher of two schools in North Yorkshire and then senior lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall.[2] He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel "Teacher, Teacher!" sold 100,000 copies.[2]
The books are:-
- Teacher, Teacher!
- Mister Teacher
- Dear Teacher
- Village Teacher
- Please Sir!
- Educating Jack
- School's Out
- Silent Night
- Star Teacher
References
- ↑ Yorkshire Evening Post 30 September 2008 Fun of a teacher man
- 1 2 Yorkshire Life 14 Feb 2010 "Teachers author Jack Sheffield talks to Yorkshire Life"
External links
- Yorkshire Life 14 Feb 2010 "Teachers author Jack Sheffield talks to Yorkshire Life" (includes images of author)
- Yorkshire Post 18 May 2007 The Yorkshire Teacher novels - Jack Sheffield
- Jack Sheffield The home page of Jack Sheffield's website
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