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Marcia Williams has illustrated and retold many literary classics for children with her distinctive cartoon-strip style.

When she met rising star Wilson in , Marcia Williams was a married year-old secretary working at Labour party headquarters.

Picture-book author and illustrator Marcia Williams is a writer by tradition as well as by inclination.

Marcia Williams was an extraordinary woman and one whose place in the history of the Labour Party has often been overlooked.

Marcia has introduced a generation of children to the works of Charles Dickens through her retellings of Oliver Twist and Other Great Dickens Stories.

Picture-book author and illustrator Marcia Williams is a writer by tradition as well as by inclination..

Marcia (Dorothy) Williams (1945-) Biography

(Dorothy Williams)

Personal

Born 1945, in England; daugher of Peter Powell (an author and theatre director) and Joan Alexander Carnwath (a writer); stepEducation: Educated in England and Switzerland; studied painting at Richmond College; University of Surrey (Roehampton, England), M.A.

(Hobbies and other interests: Animals, reading, travel, food, friends, film, children, music.

Marcia Williams

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Walker Books, Ltd., 87 Vauxhall Walk, London SE11 5HJ, England.

Career

Freelance writer and illustrator of children's books, 1986—; previously worked as an interior designer and nursery school teacher; with designer Gerald Scarfe, creator of papier-mache and cloth sculptures; actor in stage productions of Mr William Shakespeare's Plays and Bravo, Mr William Shakespeare!

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

The First Christmas, Random House (New York, NY), 1987, reprinted, Walker Books (Lo