Richard MacSween
| Titles: | Victory Street |
| Category: | Children's |
| Georgina Ruffhead |
Richard MacSween was born in Scotland but has lived mostly in the north of England. He graduated from Leeds University in 1978 in English/Art History, has had a variety of jobs - barwork, forestry, factory work, the building trade - and recently has been teaching English in an FE college.
His first novel for teenagers, The Firing (Andersen 2002), was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2002. His second, Victory Sweet, is set in a northern town during the race riots of 2001.
He also writes drama - a four-hander Inventing Max played at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2002 - and has had short sories broadcast on radio. Currently he is working on a play set in the mid-C17th about a group of actors, and on a new novel.
He lives in Colne, Lancashire with his partner and sometimes with their three children, and has wide interests: music, politics, theatre, art, building and cooking.
