![]() ![]() One of his most successful works in this genre was The Chieftain's Daughter (1993), a historical novel set in the Fifth century, which won a Bisto Book of the Year Merit Award in 1994. ![]() Writing part-time while also pursuing his career as a teacher, McBratney had published twenty-three novels by the time he retired from teaching in 1990, most of them targeted at young adult readers. Initially, he was unable to find a publisher for the book, which he has described as semi-autobiographical, and as a "pre-puberty love story." The book was ultimately published by Abelard-Schuman in 1976. McBratney wrote his first novel, Mark Time, in 1969. McBratney and his wife Maralyn, a teacher, had three children, who are now adults. After earning a degree in history from Trinity College Dublin, he worked as a primary and secondary school teacher from 1970 until 1990, when he took early retirement to focus on writing. McBratney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 1 March 1943. He wrote more than fifty books for children and young adults, and is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book Guess How Much I Love You, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 53 languages. Samuel McBratney (1 March 1943 – 18 September 2020 ) was a writer from Northern Ireland. ![]()
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