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When was Michael Morpurgo married?
1963 (Clare Morpurgo)
Michael Morpurgo/Wedding dates
Aged 19, Morpurgo married Clare, eldest daughter of Sir Allen Lane, the founder of Penguin Books, in 1963.
When did Michael and Clare Morpurgo stop teaching?
He set up “Farms for City Children” charity with his wife Clare in 1976 after leaving his job as a teacher that he held for ten years.
Why do you think Morpurgo was given the title of children’s Laureate?
In 2003, Sir Michael Morpurgo became the third Children’s Laureate, a scheme he helped to establish with the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes to reward a lifetime contribution to children’s literature and highlight the importance of the role of children’s books.
How did Michael Morpurgo get married to his wife?
My mother wanted to be with a man she had met while my father was away in the army. He was called Jack Morpurgo. So my father came home to find there was no place for him. There was a divorce. Jack Morpurgo married my mother, and so became our stepfather.
Where did Michael Morpurgo go to school as a child?
After six years at The Abbey school in Ashurst Wood, Morpurgo then went to the King’s School, an independent school in Canterbury, Kent, where he felt less homesick than at his previous school. Morpurgo did not learn who his biological father was until he was 19 years old.
When did Kippe Cammaerts and Jack Morpurgo get married?
While Van Bridge was away at war, Kippe Cammaerts met Jack Morpurgo (subsequently professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds from 1969 to 1982 ). When Van Bridge returned to England in 1946, he and Cammaerts obtained a divorce and Cammaerts married Jack Morpurgo the same year.
Who is Michael Morpurgo from The Wizard of Oz?
Michael Morpurgo was born on October 5, 1943 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England as Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo. He is a writer and actor, known for War Horse (2011), Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz and The Kites Are Flying!. He is married to Claire Morpurgo MBE. They have three children.