Samuel Youd

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Samuel Youd (born Christopher Samuel Youd, on April 16, 1922) is a British science fiction author, best known for his novel The Death of Grass and The Tripods trilogy, published under the pseudonym John Christopher.. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976. Youd has written under the pseudonyms John Christopher, Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye. Christopher Samuel Youd was born in Lancashire. He was educated at Peter Symonds' School in Winchester, Hampshire (now Peter Symonds College). His surname Youd is of Dutch origin (French Flemish dialect). He did his war service in the Royal Corps of Signals between 1941 and 1946. A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for him to pursue his writing career, beginning with The Winter Swan. His novels were popular during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably The Death Of Grass.