Ros Asquith has been a Guardian cartoonist for 20 years and has written and illustrated over 80 books for young people. She answered only to the name of Jim until she was five and believed herself to be an Apache brave until she was nine. Her first job, aged 17, was illustrating Greek Myths for an American audio visual company. She graduated from Camberwell School of Art, working as a photographer, designer and teacher before becoming theatre critic for Time Out magazine, Co-Theatre Editor of CITY LIMITS, deputy Theatre critic of the OBSERVER and diary writer for TV TIMES. She has painted murals in several countries and many children’s bedrooms, cuddled a wolf and shared a cigarette with a chimpanzee.
Ros has two sons and lives in North London with a jazz critic.
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