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Aud Wynne-Jones

Writer whose published works contribute to contemporary literature. The Wynne-Jones name in children's and young adult literature is most prominently associated with Tim Wynne-Jones, the Canadian author of The Maestro (1995) and numerous award-winning novels for young readers.

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1. Biography

A short life of the author

Aud Wynne-Jones is a writer whose published works appear in contemporary literature.

The Wynne-Jones name is most widely known in the literary world through Tim Wynne-Jones (b. 1948), the prolific Canadian author of children’s and young adult fiction. Tim Wynne-Jones’s The Maestro (1995) won the Governor General’s Award, and he has received numerous other honours for his inventive, psychologically acute fiction for young readers. His works include Some of the Kinder Planets (1993), The Boy in the Burning House (2000), and Blink & Caution (2011).

Collecting Wynne-Jones

For collectors interested in the Wynne-Jones name, Tim Wynne-Jones’s Governor General’s Award–winning titles are the most significant.

Canadian first editions of The Maestro (1995) and Some of the Kinder Planets (1993) are collected by specialists in Canadian children’s literature. Canadian children’s and YA fiction has become an increasingly recognised collecting field internationally.