![]() ![]() His first published book was It Never Rained: Five Stories in 1974. ![]() He later said he could see there was “magic” in it for the children, making him realise he found it magical too. Morpurgo discovered his vocation was writing while teaching in Kent. Hughes became his neighbour, friend and mentor. He began writing after feeling inspired by the works of English poet Ted Hughes and American novelists Paul Gallico and Ernest Hemingway. ![]() Rather than taking a position in the military, he pursued a career as a teacher, teaching at schools in Kent and Cambridge. He wanted to write a book from the horses’ point of view and it became a bestseller that was made into a stage play and a film.īorn in 1943 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Morpurgo graduated from King’s College London and then attended Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. ![]() Morpurgo was inspired to write War Horse after meeting veterans of the Great War, who remembered the suffering of the horses. The First World War was the final time cavalry charges were used as a viable form of attack, since advances in mechanised machinery led to more modern tactics after the final cavalry charge of 1918 on the Western Front. Although the equine hero of War Horse is fictional, his story is based on the true horrors experienced by the eight million horses who died on all sides. English author Michael Morpurgo’s famous novel, War Horse, tells the story of the important role that horses played during the Great War. ![]()
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