Jack Sheffield

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Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds [1] ) is a British author who wrote a series of novels about the headmaster of a 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.

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He grew up in Gipton in Leeds, [2] 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] [3] He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel Teacher, Teacher! sold 100,000 copies. [3] In 2016 he was awarded the honorary title of Cultural Fellow of York St John University. [4]

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  1. ↑ "Fun of a teacher man". Yorkshire Evening Post. 30 September 2008. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 "The Yorkshire Teacher novels - Jack Sheffield". Yorkshire Post. 18 May 2007. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Greenway, Tony (14 February 2010). "Teachers author Jack Sheffield talks to Yorkshire Life". Yorkshire Life. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Paperback Writer: insights from author Jack Sheffield". York St John University. 2 March 2017. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Books". Jack Sheffield. Retrieved 10 February 2019.

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