Tobias Druitt

Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling.

Diane Purkiss is a Tutor in English at Keble College, Oxford University, and she is the first Oxford English Faculty member since C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien to publish a children's book.

Michael Dowling is Diane Purkiss' son, and is fifteen years old. Dowling is one of the subjects of the ongoing Channel 4 documentary series, Child Genius.