After a year he resigned his scholarship and left Oxford for London, intent on becoming a writer. He won a Classics scholarship to Oxford University and, although he loved university life, he found the tuition dull. During his school days at Nottingham High School he wrote stories, poems and a 3-act play which the school performed. His family were wine merchants but from an early age Geoffrey decided that he would not follow in his father’s footsteps but instead would be a writer. When he began his career, his radical viewpoint was a refreshing change from the conventional and often jingoistic tone of most children's literature of the time, and he was one of the first authors who deliberately set out to appeal to both boys and girls and to feature strong leading characters of both sexes. However, with his ground-breaking study Tales Out of School (1949), he was also a pioneer of the idea that children's literature should be a serious subject for study and debate. He is best known for writing children's historical novels, whose content reflects his insistence on historically correct backgrounds, which he meticulously researched. His work has been translated into 20 languages. Geoffrey Trease (AugJanuary 27, 1998), full name Robert Geoffrey Trease, was a prolific writer, publishing 113 books between 1934 ( Bows Against the Barons) and 1997 ( Cloak for a Spy).
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