Public Library Pioneer: A.W. McClellan (Paperback or Softback)

Keith McClellan spent his career in teaching. He taught English in Harlow, Essex, before he and his wife went to Kenya where they taught for six years. He became deputy head of his school there, wrote and directed plays for the Kenya schools drama festival performed in the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi. His play, The Iron Snake was published by Longman after he had directed it on Kenyan T.V. He returned to teach in Hampshire and moved to Berkshire where he was deputy head in John O'Gaunt School, Hungerford, at the time of the shooting tragedy there in 1987. Later that year he was appointed head of the Cooper School, Bicester where he spent the final twelve years of his teaching career. He spent a year as chairman of the Oxfordshire Secondary School Headteachers' Association and was also a headteacher representative on the Oxford University Education Department Committee dealing with student teacher placements. During this time he had articles published in the Times educational Supplement and the Oxford Times. On retirement he undertook many activities including joining a writing group. He went on to have a biographical sketch broadcast on Radio Oxford and later published his novel, The Bootlegger's Widow. He gives talks on from Writing groups to publication. His other interests are, his family, travel, walking and amateur dramatics.