Epically Good Greek Myths

R.A.Spratt was born in the UK and lived in Dursley, Gloucestershire--a town immortalized by Harry Potter's deeply unpleasant relatives--until she was two years old. Then, like many ambitious English people cursed with regional accents so strong no other British person can take them seriously, her family moved to Australia.

The tedium of growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney was fertilizer to the growth of R.A.'s imagination. The only thing for a kid to do was get on a bicycle and go to the library, so R.A. Spratt did just that. Once there, she read everything, devouring the books of Arthur Ransome, Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, Robin Klein and Judy Blume, and audiotapes of Shakespeare productions and Sherlock Holmes dramatizations. And so, her young mind was formed and set on the path of becoming the extraordinary author she is today.