Author michael morpurgo biography

I was born a really long time ago. 5th October 1943. In St Alban’s in Hertfordshire. My mother was there too, strangely enough, but my father was away at the war, in Baghdad. I had one older brother, Pieter.

Author michael morpurgo biography

We both were evacuated to Northumberland when we were little, away from the bombs. After the war it was all change at home, not that I remember much of it. 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.

Michael morpurgo family

Jack Morpurgo married my mother, and so became our stepfather. We lived in London then. We went to primary school at St Matthias in the Warwick Road, then were sent off to boarding school in Sussex – the Abbey, Ashhurst Wood. I was there for six years, hated being away from home, loved rugby and singing.

Then I went off to a school in Canterbury, The King’s School, where I got more used to being away from home and still loved rugby and