Philip Reeve was born in Brighton February 28th, 1966. He grew up loving Oliver Postgate, Blue Peter, Whizzer and Chips, Action Man, JRR Tolkein, Star Wars, biscuits, bikes and boats. He Started writing at the tender age of five, when he wrote his first book. His favorite subjects were art, acting, writing, history and science but detested math and P.E. After a failed attempt at college, he returned to Brighton and worked in a small bookstore. When he had the time, he enjoyed working on super low-budget films and comedies, which eventually led him to freelance illustrating in the 1990s. He illustrated other authors’ books for awhile before finally publishing Mortal Engines in 2001. His many books have won countless awards, including Here Lies Arthur’s CILIP Carnegie Medal and A Darkling’s Plain’s Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He and his wife Sarah had a boy named Sam in 2002 and the family now resides in Dartmoor.
Reeve definitely
weaves his passions into his books with ones focusing on historic events as
well as creative inventions, advanced technology, and uniquely futuristic
worlds. Fever Crumb has quite the
setting with a dismal yet enticing future and intriguing technology invented by
Reeve. The character of Fever Crumb relates to his only sibling, his little
sister. Also the reason for Fever deciding to leave her duties and become the
person she wanted to be in the end, was Reeve justifying his life style: how he
failed to complete art school and did what was best for him. Fever joins a
traveling circus, just like Reeve refusing to be productive, resulting in his
job at a book shop along with working on trivial movies. Whether Fever Crumb was therapeutic for Reeve or
accidentally entwined his life with Fever’s, connections can definitely exist.
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