Morris Gleitzman is an English-born Australian author of children's and young adult fiction. He has gained recognition for sparking an interest in AIDS in his controversial novel Two Weeks with the Queen. Gleitzman has collaborated on children's series with another Australian children's author, Paul Jennings. Gleitzman has also published three collections of his newspaper columns for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald as books for an adult readership, and he used to write for the popular Norman Gunston Show in the 1970s. Retrieved 28 January 2008. His latest book in the "Once" series, After, was released in 2012. His most successful books are the Toad trilogy of books. He has written 37 books as of April 2013. 

January 9th, 1953 in Sleaford (Age 71)