Name Charles Butler | Role Author | |
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Occupation Associate Professor, University of the West of England Awards Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies Books Calypso Dreaming, Reading History in Children, Four British Fantasists : Place an, The Fetch of Mardy Watt, The Lurkers | ||
Catherine Butler (born 25 January 1963 in Romsey, Hampshire; formerly Charles Cadman Butler) is an English academic and author of children's fiction.
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Butler's most important academic work, Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2009) in the Mythopoeic Scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources and academic journals. Another academic work, Teaching Children's Fiction is in 148 libraries. Of Butler's fiction, Timon's Tide is the most widely held and reviewed: over 300 libraries & reviews. Among her other fiction, Death of a Ghost, The Fetch of Mardy Watt, Calypso Dreaming, The Lurkers, are each in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews.
Other publications
Butler's works include:
Personal
At some point between 2009 and 2012 Butler began using the name Catherine instead of Charles, evidently as part of transitioning from male to female gender.
Butler is the sister of Martin Butler and the granddaughter of Montagu C. Butler.