Patrick Skene Catling

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Patrick Skene Catling (born 14 February 1925)[1] is a British journalist, author and book reviewer, best known for writing The Chocolate Touch in 1952.[2] He has written 12 novels, 3 works of nonfiction and 9 books for children.

Background

Catling was born and schooled in London and was educated there and at Oberlin College in the United States. Catling served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a navigator and as a journalist at The Baltimore Sun[3] and The Manchester Guardian.

He has traveled extensively. His present home is in the Republic of Ireland.[2] He continues writing books, and writes reviews for The Spectator, The Telegraph, and other publications.[4][5]

Career

His first publication of The Chocolate Touch in 1952 received enthusiastic responses from several reviewers. Catling has since written dozens of books, and has developed the popular The Chocolate Touch character John Midas into the children's book series: John Midas in the Dreamtime (1986), John Midas and the Vampires (1994), John Midas and the Radio Touch (1994), and John Midas and the Rock Star (1995). Of John Midas in the Dreamtime, School Library Journal wrote, "...children who have been dragged around tourist sights will relate to John's boredom".[6]

Selected works

Novels

  • Tourist Attraction[7] (Macmillan, 1963)
  • The Experiment[8] (Anthony Blond, 1968)
  • The Exterminator[9] (The Bodley Head, 1969)
  • Freddy Hill: The Story of a Modern Man of Pleasure[10] (The Bodley Head, 1969)
  • The Catalogue[11] (The Bodley Head, 1970)
  • The Surrogate (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972)
  • Best Summer Job[12] (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
  • Secret Ingredients (Hart-Davis McGibbon, 1976)
  • Bliss Incorporated (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976)
  • Freddy Hill in Las Vegas (Panther, 1979)
  • Jazz, Jazz, Jazz[13] (Blond and Briggs, 1980)
  • Murder Becomes Electra: A Love Story (Somerville Press, 2018)

Children's Books

  • The Chocolate Touch[14] (Morrow, 1957)
  • John Midas in the Dreamtime[15] (Morrow, 1986)
  • The Orphan and the Billionaire (Methuen Young Books, 1990)
  • Eskimo Surprise[16] (Mammoth, 1993)
  • John Midas and the Radio Touch[17] (Methuen Young Books, 1993)
  • A Trunkful of Tricks[18] (Heinemann Young Books, 1994)
  • John Midas and the Vampires[19] (Mammoth, 1994)
  • John Midas and the Rock Star[20] (Egmont Childrens' Books, 1995)
  • Chocolate Magic[21] (Mammoth, 2000)

Non-Fiction

  • Better Than Working[22] (Faber & Faber, 1960)
  • The Right End of the Stick (Faber & Faber, 1963)
  • The Joy of Freeloading (Bloomsbury, 1990)
  • Harassment: Memoirs of a Sex Object (Bloomsbury, 1993)

Journalism

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References

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  3. ↑ Better Than Working by Patrick Skene Catling. New York: Macmillan. 1960. Also: The Baltimore Sun 1837-1987 by Harold A. Williams. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. p.335-336
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