John Christopher

(Christopher) Samuel Youd (born April 16, 1922) is a British science fiction author. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1976.

Youd has written under the pseudonyms John Christopher, Stanley Winchester, Hilary Ford, William Godfrey, William Vine, Peter Graaf, Peter Nichols, and Anthony Rye.

He is best known for his novel The Death of Grass and The Tripods trilogy, published under the pseudonym John Christopher.

Christopher Samuel Youd was born in Lancashire. He was educated at Peter Symonds' School in Winchester, Hampshire (now Peter Symonds College). His surname Youd is of Dutch origin (French Flemish dialect).[citation needed]

He did his war service in the Royal Corps of Signals between 1941 and 1946. A scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation made it possible for