Tobias Druitt

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Tobias Druitt is an author of fantasy novels. Tobias Druitt is the pseudonym of two authors who write together, Diane Purkiss and Michael Dowling.BBC Oxford Write On! For Children in Need, 8 November 2005 [http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2005/11/08/write_on_authors.shtml BBC – Oxford – Features – The Authors] Retrieved 3 May 2009

Diane Purkiss is a tutor in English at Keble College, Oxford University, and she is the first Oxford English faculty member since C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien to publish a children's book.{{fact|date=February 2023}}

Michael Dowling is Diane Purkiss' son. He is one of the subjects of the ongoing Channel 4 documentary series, Child Genius.[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1542133/Young-gifted-and-trying-to-be-a-normal-child.html Daily Telegraph 10 February 2007]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20110918082439/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article756023.ece Sunday Times 17 December 2006] Retrieved 3 May 2009