The author of over two dozen books for young adults, British writer Celia Rees deals in history, crime, and horror. Best known in the United States for her novel of seventeenth-century Puritan Massachusetts, Witch Child, Rees has also written a score of hard-hitting and edgy titles published in England that deal with stalking, rape, UFOs, fortune-telling, ghosts, possession, bullying, and assorted other chill-factors. "I have written many books . . . and have often chosen to write in popular genres--crime or horror," Rees once commented. "My mission has always been to reach as many readers as possible, and this is what people want to read. I don't always write in genre, neither do I aim my books at a specific gender. It does not seem to matter to my readers whether the main character is a girl or boy, what counts is the story. Genre, or non-genre, there is nearly always a mystery at the centre of my novels, and for inspiration I often look back to my own child- and young adulthood."
Born in 1949 in the town of Solihull in the English West Midlands, Rees was a reader from an early age.
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