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
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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

  1. 1968Marcus Sedgwick born at Kent.
  2. 2006La Amenaza del Caballo Oscuro digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 2006De donkere trap digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 2008De Voorspelling digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 2013midwinterblood digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 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. 1.

    <i>Marcus Aurelius</i>. Henry Dwight Sedgwick, Isis, 1923

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Marcus Sedgwick: Author–United Kingdom, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature, 2021

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2013

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2014

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick (review), Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, 2015

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming Marcus Sedgwick.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Internet Archive, 4 digitised items catalogued under Marcus Sedgwick as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  8. 8.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 2 works naming Marcus Sedgwick.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q930581: Marcus Sedgwick

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  10. 10.

    “Marcus Sedgwick”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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