Philip Reeve

Quick Facts

Full Name	Philip Reeve
Occupation	Children's Author
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1966(1966-02-28)
Age	58
Birthplace	Brighton
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Philip Reeve Biography

Philip Reeve is one of the most popular and richest Children's Author who was born on February 28, 1966 in Brighton, England, United Kingdom. Award-winning children’s author best known for his Mortal Engines Quartet series. He won the 2006 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, a once- in-a-lifetime book award for his concluding volume. He’s also popular for his series of Mortal Engines prequels, the first one being a finalist for the 2010 Carnegie Medal.

His earliest influences include the likes of JRR Tolkein and Oliver Postgate.

Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is an English author and illustrator of children’s books, primarily known for the 2001 book Mortal Engines and its sequels. His 2007 novel, Here Lies Arthur, based on the legendary King Arthur, won the Carnegie Medal, which sets out to choose the year’s best children’s book published in the UK.

Reeve spent more than ten years on Mortal Engines, coming up with ideas in 1989 or 1990, leading to publication in 2001. He was working on it part-time between illustration jobs, but as he became sure he could complete such a project, he cut down his illustration work and devoted more time to writing.

He was born in Brighton, England. He had a son named Sam in 2002 with his wife Sarah.

Philip Reeve Net Worth

Philip Reeve is one of the richest Children's Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip Reeve 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He wrote his first story at the age of five years old called Spike and his dog Spook.

He won the annual 2007 Carnegie Medal award, honoring the year’s best children’s book for his novel Here Lies Arthur.

Born on 28 February 1966 in Brighton, Reeve studied illustration, first at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (CCAT – now Anglia Ruskin University), where he contributed a comic strip to the Student Union magazine, and later at Brighton Polytechnic (now the University of Brighton). Before becoming an illustrator he worked at a bookshop in Brighton for several years. During his student years and for a few years afterwards he wrote for and performed in comedy sketch shows with a variety of collaborators under various group names, among them The Charles Atlas Sisters. He lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Sam.

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Who is Philip Reeve Dating?

According to our records, Philip Reeve married to Sarah Reeve. As of December 1, 2023, Philip Reeve’s is not dating anyone.

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Reeve claims not to be a methodical writer. He plans nothing at all, usually starting with an opening image, a closing image, and a few vague notions for the things that happen in between. This leads to thousands of words of rough draft material being abandoned – even entire novels, such as with Fever Crumb and Mortal Engines. However, he takes ideas from these abandoned draughts to build the final version. It usually takes him a year to move a novel from first idea to publication – six months actively writing it, the rest editing and thinking.

Facts & Trivia

Philip Ranked on the list of most popular Children's Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Philip Reeve celebrates birthday on February 28 of every year.

Reeve’s first book for older readers was Mortal Engines, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in age category 9–11 years and made the Whitbread Book Award shortlist. Mortal Engines is the first book in a series sometimes called the Mortal Engines Quartet (2001–2006), which includes Predator’s Gold, Infernal Devices and A Darkling Plain. The books feature two young adventurers, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, living in a lawless post- apocalyptic world inhabited by moving cities. For the fourth volume, Reeve won the once-in-a-lifetime 2006 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children’s writers.

Who is phillip Reeve?

Philip Reeve (born 28 February 1966) is a British author and illustrator of children’s books , primarily known for the 2001 book Mortal Engines and its sequels.

What is the order of the Mortal Engines books?

Books

What was philip reeves first book?

My first novel, the epic Mortal Engines , was published in 2001. It went on to win the Smarties and Blue Peter prizes, and a movie, directed by Christian Rivers and produced by Peter Jackson, was released in 2018.

What age is Philip Reeve?

56 years (February 28, 1966)

Is there a sequel to Mortal Engines movie?

MORTAL ENGINES The original story is told through four different books, and so many fans thought that the film series would follow through with the same amount of sequels. Unfortunately, the 2018 film didn’t quite hit the mark at the box office, so it’s unlikely we’ll see a sequel.