Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick was a British writer, illustrator, musician, literary editor and young adult author (1968–2022). He was born at Kent and died at Saint-Eutrope.
Marcus Sedgwick in brief
- Born
- 1968
- Died
- 2022
- Known for
- writer, illustrator, musician, literary editor, young adult author and bookseller
- Place of birth
- Kent
Contents
Career and activity
Marcus Sedgwick worked in literary activity, fantasy literature, children's and young adult literature, picture book and illustration.
He worked at France.
Catalogued works
34 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1895 to 2013.
Blood Red, Snow White. Floodland. My Swordhand Is Singing. The Book of Dead Days. The Dark Flight Down. The Kiss of Death. The Ghosts of Heaven. The Foreshadowing. Revolver. Midwinterblood. Cudweed's Birthday. Cudweed in Outer Space. Cudweed's Time Machine. Fright Forest. Monster Mountains. Scream Sea. Dread Desert. Terror Town. Creepy Caves. Flood and Fang. Ghosts and Gadgets. Lunatics and Luck. Vampires and Volts. Magic and Mayhem. A Love Like Blood. Killing the Dead. Mister Memory. The Monsters We Deserve. Snowflake, AZ. Witch Hill. The Dark Horse. White Crow. The Cambridge natural history / edited by S.F. Harmer and A.E. Shipley., dated 1895-1909, held by Wellcome Collection. Open graves, open minds : representations of vampires and the undead from the Enlightenment to the present day / edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes., dated 2013, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.
Wellcome Collection: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
8 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Marcus Sedgwick: Author–United Kingdom, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2021. <i>Marcus Aurelius</i>. Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Isis, 1923. She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2014. Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2013. The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2015. Confronting ecological futures: global environmental crises in contemporary survival quests for young adults, Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2012. Confronting ecological futures: global environmental crises in contemporary survival quests for young adults, Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2010. Do I Dare to Leave the Universe Alone? Environmental Crisis, Narrative Identity, and Collective Agency in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, Humanities, 2025.
Digitised editions and texts
4 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
De Voorspelling (2008) — Internet Archive. midwinterblood (2013) — Internet Archive. La Amenaza del Caballo Oscuro (2006) — Internet Archive. De donkere trap (2006) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 9 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
Chronology
- 1968Marcus Sedgwick born at Kent.
- 2006La Amenaza del Caballo Oscuro digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2006De donkere trap digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2008De Voorspelling digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2013midwinterblood digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2022Marcus Sedgwick died at Saint-Eutrope.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
<i>Marcus Aurelius</i>. Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Isis, 1923
scholarly publication · Scholarly
Consult the source - 2.
Marcus Sedgwick: Author–United Kingdom, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2021
scholarly publication · Scholarly
Consult the source - 3.
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2013
scholarly publication · Scholarly
Consult the source - 4.
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2014
scholarly publication · Scholarly
Consult the source - 5.
The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2015
scholarly publication · Scholarly
Consult the source - 6.
Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming Marcus Sedgwick.
open access index · Unverified
Consult the source - 7.
Internet Archive, 4 digitised items catalogued under Marcus Sedgwick as creator.
digital repository · Unverified
Consult the source - 8.
Wellcome Collection catalogue records 2 works naming Marcus Sedgwick.
museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection
Consult the source - 9.
Wikidata, structured authority record Q930581: Marcus Sedgwick
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
Consult the source - 10.
“Marcus Sedgwick”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
Consult the source
Elsewhere in Books
15,964 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Marcus Furius BibaculusAuthor
- Marcus ManiliusAuthor
- Marcus Minucius FelixAuthor
- Marcus MusurusAuthor
- Marcus Terentius VarroAuthor
- Marcus Valerius Messalla CorvinusAuthor
- Marcus Velleius PaterculusAuthor
- Marek KoterskiAuthor
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