John Geoffrey Hyett Dickinson (born June 1962) is an English author of young adult novels. His first novel, The Cup of the World, was published in 2004. His novel The Lightstep, written for adults, was published in 2008.
Dickinson lives in Painswick, Gloucestershire.
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Biography
Dickinson is the eldest son of author Peter Dickinson and Mary Rose Barnard. He has two sisters, of whom one is the book editor Philippa Dickinson, and a brother. He was educated at St Paul's School (London) and Trinity College, Oxford, where he achieved a First in History.
From 1985 to 1998, Dickinson worked at the Ministry of Defence (MOD). During this time he was seconded to the Cabinet Office (1993–1995) and to the UK Delegation to NATO where he worked on the Membership Action Plans of the states that joined NATO in 2004.
Dickinson left the MOD on a sabbatical in 2002 to become a full-time writer. He wrote two unpublished novels before the third, The Cup of the World, was published in 2004 by David Fickling Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books.
In 1992 Dickinson married Pippa Thomson. They have two children.