Wendy Boase, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Wendy Boase

Australian book editor

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1944

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1999

Profession: editor

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Wendy Boase (14 October 1944 – 15 March 1999) born in Melbourne, Australia, she was one of the co-founders of the children's publishing company Walker Books.
She held the position of editorial director of Walker Books until her death in 1999 from cancer.
After her death Julia Eccleshare (Children's Book Editor of the Guardian newspaper and chairman of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize) and Anne Marley (Head of Children’s, Youth & Schools Services for Hampshire Library & Information Service) decided to create an annual award named the Branford Boase Award in commemoration of both Wendy Boase and her colleague Henrietta Branford who also died of cancer the same year.
Wendy Boase helped Henrietta Branford to write the novel Fire, Bed, and Bone which won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize.