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Jan 18, 1934 — Aug 9, 2022· 88 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · CHILDREN · FICTION

Raymond Briggs

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Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, to parents Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971), a milkman, and Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), a former lady's maid-turned-housewife, who married in 1930. His other known relatives are: an adoptive paternal grandmother (his father's step-mother), his maternal grandparents, and two maternal uncles who died during childhood. He attended Rutlish School, at that time a grammar school, pursued cartooning from an early age and, despite his father's attempts to discourage him from this unprofitable pursuit, attended the Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 to study painting, and Central School of Art to study typography. From 1953 to 1955, he was a National Service conscript in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick, where he was made a draughtsman. After this, he returned to study painting at Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London, graduating in 1957.

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— from The party, 1997

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Father Christmas

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Lord Ware needs an heir and wonders if his late cousin's wife will part with one of her twin sons. He ends up spending an eventful Christmas learning to love this family, and surprisingly the widow as well.

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Raymond Briggs' The snowman

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When his snowman comes to life, a little boy invites him home and in return is taken on a flight high above the countryside.

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The Man

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'I. Douglass Dilman, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the United States.' It is unthinkable, unimaginable - the fourth President after John F. Kennedy is a full-blooded Negro. This fearful honour falls on him not by the will of the people, but through accidental death and a law of succession never before invoked. Dilman must prove to be a man with a worth of his own... The tremendous drama of a man on trial for his life sweeps through the lives of those connected with him: the suave ambitious Secretary of State, next in line to the Presidency; Dilman's beautiful social secretary, who accuses him of attempted rape; his son, secretly a member of a subversive organization: his daughter, passing for white: and the woman the widowed President loves yet dares not marry.

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