found: Her Revolt at Ratcliffe's rags, 1980: t.p. (Gillian Cross)
found: Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) database, 1 Mar. 2005 (born 24 Dec. 1945)
found: Gillian Cross, via WWW, Nov. 27, 2012 (born in London; M.A., Somerville College, Oxford; D. Phil., University of Sussex; contact: gillian@gilliancross.co.uk)
found: Wikipedia, Nov. 27, 2012 (British author of children's books; has been awarded the Carnegie Medal in Literature for Wolf (1990), and the Whitbread Children's Book Award for The great elephant chase (1992)
found: British Council--Literature, via WWW, Nov. 27, 2012 (Gillian Cross lives with her family in Warwickshire)