Liz Pichon

Liz Pichon is a British author and illustrator best known for the Tom Gates series, written and drawn in the style of a schoolboy's own doodle-filled notebook.

She studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Arts and worked as an art director at Jive Records before moving into children's books, first as an illustrator for other authors and then as a writer-illustrator in her own right.

The first Tom Gates book, The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Red House Children's Book Award; the series has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 40 languages. She lives in Brighton, England.