![]() ![]() ![]() His second book, Devil-in-the-Fog (1966), won the first annual Guardian Prize and was serialised for television, as were several of his later works ( below). In that form it was published by Constable in 1964. saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded Garfield to adapt it for younger readers. Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel Jack Holborn, for adult readers, but an editor at Constable & Co. In 1964 the Garfields adopted a baby girl whom they called Jane after Jane Austen, a favourite writer of both parents. ![]() After the war Garfield worked as a biochemical laboratory technician at the Whittington Hospital in Islington, writing in his spare time until the 1960s, when he was successful enough to write full-time. ![]()
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