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Joyce Dunbar was born on 6 January, 1944 in Scunthorpe, England, is an English children's writer. Discover Joyce Dunbar's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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80 years old |
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Scunthorpe, England |
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Joyce Dunbar Height, Weight & Measurements
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Joyce Dunbar Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Joyce Dunbar worth at the age of 80 years old? Joyce Dunbar’s income source is mostly from being a successful writer. She is from . We have estimated Joyce Dunbar's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Joyce Dunbar (born 6 January 1944) is an English writer.
She primarily writes books for children, and has published over seventy books.
Dunbar is perhaps best known for Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep, This Is The Star, and the Mouse and Mole series.
She is the mother of the children's writer-illustrator Polly Dunbar.
Dunbar was born in 1944 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, and is one of four children.
Her father was a steel-worker and her mother was a fishing net maker.
She grew up in Lincolnshire.
Dunbar attended Goldsmiths College in London, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English.
After that, she did several jobs, working as a nanny, a waitress, a barmaid, and a salesperson.
In 1968, she started working as a teacher in a college drama department of Stratford-on-Avon, England.
In 1985, Dunbar published Mundo and the Weather-Child – a novel about the imaginary friend of a deaf child, which helped her become a runner up for the Guardian Fiction Award.
However, due to her gradual loss of hearing, Dunbar had to stop her teaching career and in 1989, she became a full-time writer.
Dunbar has two grown up children: Ben, a fashion photographer and Polly, an author illustrator.
Dunbar currently lives in Norwich.
Dunbar published her first children's book at age 35.
In 1990, her book A Bun for Barney was made into an interactive video game by BBC Multimedia Corporation.
In 1998, she wrote Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep, which is recommended as a book to help children feel secure.
In 1998, Dunbar cycled across Cuba in order to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society.
Her journal Cycle Cuba, a record of this event, was published in 1999.
That same year, she had a trip to the Himalayas in support of the founding of a new ashram.
Dunbar has also taught English writing for children from Greek island Skyros.
Dunbar is on the steering group for the Picture project run by SCOPE, which is about the representation of children with disability in picture books.
In 2002 Dunbar did a book tour in the United States to promote this book.
Her 2005 picture book Shoe Baby, illustrated by her daughter Polly, was made into a puppet show and is part of the 2006 Brighton Festival.
Dunbar most well-known series, Mouse and Mole (illustrated by James Mayhew), has been adapted into a 26-part television animation series by Grasshopper Productions, with voices lent by Alan Bennett and Richard Briers.
Being a deaf person, Dunbar has participated in a number of campaigns on behalf of deaf people.
