Novelist Amanda Craig has been writing a children’s book column for The Times — until yesterday, when she announced via Twitter that the newspaper had let her go after a decade. The outpouring of grief has gone transatlantic, with even Neil Gaiman, Brit author now in New York, sending messages of support. He said he was “enormously disappointed” to hear the news.
“I’m sad, not because of the loss of my minuscule weekly fee but because I care so much about children and children’s books,” Craig tells the Londoner. “I’ve been proud to discover all kinds of stars, from JK Rowling and Philip Pullman to Cressida Cowell and Suzanne Collins, because I’ve always ignored hype and gone for what I loved, as someone who has always read and treasured children’s books despite being an adult literary novelist.”
