Peter Dickinson
Sign in to saveAlso known as Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson, Hon. Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson
English children's writer (1927–2015)
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- 1927
- Died
- 2015
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- 171
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Peter Dickinson (born November 15, 1934) is an English composer, musicologist, and pianist. He was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, and studied organ at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a student of Philip Radcliffe. In 1958 he became a student at the Juilliard School in New York City, and studied with Bernard Wagenaar, and encountered the works of experimental composers such as Henry Cowell, John Cage, and Edgard Varèse. Returning to England in 1962 <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
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- date of birth
- 1927-12-16
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- 2015-01-01
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- 1968-00-00
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1927 births2015 deaths20th-century British Army personnel20th-century English novelists21st-century English novelistsAlumni of King's College, CambridgeCarnegie Medal in Literature winnersEnglish children's writersEnglish crime fiction writersEnglish fantasy writersEnglish male novelistsEnglish male short story writersEnglish short story writersFellows of the Royal Society of LiteratureGuardian Children's Fiction Prize winnersMembers of the Detection ClubOfficers of the Order of the British EmpirePeople educated at Eton College