{"source_records": ["amazon:6053742341", "bwb:9788483430934", "bwb:9781526725738", "amazon:152672572X"], "personal_name": "Martyn Beardsley", "name": "Martyn Beardsley", "alternate_names": ["Martyn R. Beardsley", "Martyn R Beardsley"], "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "key": "/authors/OL1394855A", "birth_date": "1957", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Martyn Beardsley has lived in Nottingham all his life. A civil servant for many years, he is now concentrating on his writing career. As well as being a children's author, one of his great passions is history. In 2002 he published a biography of Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer."}, "photos": [12726653], "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-05-05T13:18:44.199424"}}