Timothy Knapman studied history at Oxford. Since then he has spent his time writing plays, opera libretti, song lyrics and children's books.

With Alex Silverman and Ed Jaspers, he wrote Hamlet! The Musical, which was a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2010 and won the WhatsOnStage.com Theatregoers' Choice award for Best Musical.

A full-length production played at the Royal & Derngate Northampton and the Richmond Theatre in 2011 (“absurdly clever... there is wit, as well as silliness, in the lyrics... very funny” Guardian).

The Stage called his most recent play, The Stag King, a "darkly magical... and imaginative show, which both challenges and enchants."

Tim's books, including the successful Mungo series, have been translated into twelve languages and are often read on CBeebies Bedtime Stories. New stories are forthcoming from Macmillan, Scholastic, Hachette, Puffin, Simon & Schuster and Walker.

His stage and music theatre work has been commissioned and performed by I Fagiolini, Trestle Theatre Company, Handmade Opera, the University of Madison, Wisconsin, and many others in the UK and across the world, with premières at the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Cheltenham Festival, the Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, the Holywell Music Room, the Dartington International Summer School and the Café de Paris.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment commissioned Tim to write a poem in celebration of its 21st birthday. The poem was performed by Simon Callow at the Royal Festival Hall.

Tim has appeared on Radio 3's In Tune and his work has been featured on Classical Collection and The Choir with Aled Jones.

Tim does lots of school visits and bookshop readings.

His hobbies include swashbuckling.