Swallows And Amazons

About Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884 and went to school at Rugby. He was in Russia in 1917 and witnessed the Revolution which he reported for the Manchester Guardian. After escaping to Scandinavia he settled in the Lake District with his Russian wife where in 1929 he wrote Swallows and Amazons. And so began a writing career which has produced some of the real children's treasures of all time. In 1936 he won the first ever Carnegie Medal for his book Pigeon Post. Ransome died in 1967. He and his wife Evgenia lie buried in the churchyard of St Paul's Church Rusland in the southern Lake District.