Michael Morpurgo
His biographical data
Michael Murporgo´s full name is Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo. He was born 5
October 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, he attended schools in London, Sussex
and Canterbury. He went on to London University to study English and French,
followed by a step into the teaching profession and a job in a primary school in
Kent. It was there that he discovered what he wanted to do.
Morpurgo's biological father was actor Tony Van Bridge. His mother, Kippe
Cammaerts (otherwise Catherine Noel Kippe, daughter of Emile Cammaerts), who
had been an actress, met (and in 1946 married) Jack Morpurgo (subsequently
Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds from 1969 to 1982)
while Bridge was away during World War II. Morpurgo did not find out who his
biological father was until he was 19, when watching the 1962 film version of
Great Expectations with his mother, in which Bridge appeared.
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