Michael Foreman (b.1938)

Born in Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Michael Foreman studied at Lowestoft School of Art and the Royal College of Art. He is one of Britain’s best-loved illustrators of children’s books, writing and illustrating his own stories and working with authors such as Michael Morpurgo. He has twice won the Kate Greenaway Medal, the second time for War Boy, his memoir of a wartime childhood, and was appointed OBE in 2022.