Please answer the following question: Facts:     - education: university of london , university of york    - birth date: 25 january 1963    - image size: 150px    - birth place: romsey , hampshire , england    - occupation: associate professor , university of the west of england   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of charles butler -lrb- author -rrb- .
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charles cadman butler -lrb- born 25 january 1963 in romsey , hampshire -rrb- is an english academic and author of children 's fiction .butler 's most important academic work , `` four british fantasists : place and culture in the children 's fantasies of penelope lively , alan garner , diana wynne jones , and susan cooper '' won the mythopoeic fantasy award -lrb- 2009 -rrb- in the mythopoeic scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to worldcat , and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources , and academic journals , : another academic work , `` teaching children 's fiction '' is in 148 libraries . .and for butler 's fiction : `` timon 's tide '' is his most widely held and reviewed : over 300 libraries & reviews in , among his other fiction , `` death of a ghost '' , `` the fetch of mardy watt '' , `` calypso dreaming '' , `` the lurkers '' , are each in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews .butler 's works include : `` female replies to swetnam the woman-hater '' , ed .-lrb- thoemmes , 1995 -rrb- `` the darkling '' -lrb- orion , 1997 -rrb- `` timon 's tide '' -lrb- orion , 1998 -rrb- `` calypso dreaming '' -lrb- harpercollins , 2002 -rrb- `` the fetch of mardy watt '' -lrb- harpercollins , 2004 -rrb- `` death of a ghost '' -lrb- harpercollins , 2006 -rrb- `` the lurkers '' -lrb- usborne , 2006 -rrb- `` teaching children 's fiction '' , ed .-lrb- palgrave macmillan , 2006 -rrb- `` four british fantasists : place and culture in the children 's fantasies of penelope lively , alan garner , diana wynne jones and susan cooper '' -lrb- scarecrow/chla , 2006 -rrb- .this book won one of the 2009 mythopoeic awards , for myth and fantasy studies .`` kiss of death '' -lrb- barrington stoke , 2007 -rrb- `` hand of blood '' -lrb- barrington stoke , 2009 -rrb- as catherine butler : `` reading history in children 's books '' , with hallie o'donovan -lrb- palgrave macmillan , 2012 -rrb- `` roald dahl : a new casebook '' , ed .with ann alston -lrb- palgrave macmillan , 2012 -rrb- ``...