Michelle Paver

Michelle Paver is a British novelist and children's writer, best known for her fantasy series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, set in pre-agricultural Stone Age Europe. Michelle Paver was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi) in central Africa. Her mother was Belgian (Flemish) and her South African father ran a newspaper, The Nyasaland Times. Her family settled in Wimbledon, England when she was three. She was educated at the Wimbledon High School. After reading biochemistry at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, she became a partner in a City of London law firm. Her father's death in 1996 prompted her to take a one-year sabbatical, in which she travelled and wrote her first book, Without Charity. Soon after her return, she resigned from legal practice to concentrate on writing.