![]() He attended St John's School until age fifteen, when he left school (as was usual at the time) and set out to find adventure as a merchant sailor. He had always loved to write, but only then did he realize the extent of his abilities. His teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old wrote it, and caned the boy for refusing to admit copying the story. At age ten, assigned to write an animal story, he wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. His father loved literature and read his boys adventure stories by Daniel Defoe, Sir Thomas Mallory, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Edgar Rice Burroughs, but also The Wind in the Willows with its cast of animals. ![]() ![]() He was known by his middle name, Brian, because his father and a brother were also named James. Jacques grew up in Kirkdale near to the Liverpool Docks. His parents were James Alfred Jacques, a haulage contractor, and Ellen Ryan. He also completed two collections of short stories entitled The Ribbajack & Other Curious Yarns and Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.īrian Jacques was born in Liverpool on 15 June 1939. James Brian Jacques ( / ˈ dʒ eɪ k s/, as in "Jakes" 15 June 1939 – 5 February 2011) was an English novelist known for his Redwall series of novels and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series. ![]()
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