What were your favourite authors like when they were kids?
As a boy, C. S. Lewis spent long, lonely afternoons in an attic, dreaming up other worlds and writing about animals who talked. Philip Pullman ran wild in the Welsh countryside with a gang of friends and wrote reams of poetry just for fun. Christopher Paul Curtis snuck out his bedroom window in the middle of the night to explore a sleeping city.
Born to Write explores how the childhoods of six celebrated authors helped shape the stories that would make them famous. Be it Madeleine L’Engle’s battle with boarding-school blues, E. B. White’s wrestling with excessive anxieties, or L.M. Montgomery’s weathering a wicked stepmother, these authors-to-be found solace in their rich imaginations and their love of books.

Discover how six extraordinary children transformed their early struggles into spellbinding bedtime reading for kids around the world.