Richmal Crompton

Richmal Crompton was a well known English novelist, who liked to write children’s books and adult fiction. She was particularly popular for writing the long-running Just William book series, which were published during the early and mid 20th century. Crompton was also a teacher and a writer of humorous short stories and fictional stories for adults to a lesser extent. Her sentimental stories in Just William novels are widely popular all across the UK even today. Author Crompton was born as Richmal Crompton Lamburn on November 15, 1890, in Bury, Lancashire. She was the second child of her parents, Edward J.S. Lamburn and Clara Crompton Lamburn. Crompton’s elder brother, John Battersby Lamburn, was also a writer. He was best known in the literary world as John Crompton for writing natural history books and as John Lambourne for writing the 1931 fantasy novel called The Kingdom That Was John Crompton.