Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher, teacher trainer, editor, and materials writer, and has taught in England, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of theOxford Bookworms Library, and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series, includingThe Phantom of the Opera,One-Way Ticket,The President's Murderer, andWilliam Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations,Rabbit-Proof Fence andLove Among the Haystacks, have won Language Learner Literature Awards, and three of her other titles have been finalists for the Awards. She has created a new sub-series calledBookworms World Stories, which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She has also written original stories for theEnglish Today Readers andStorylines series. Jennifer is series co-adviser, with H.G. Widdowson, of theOxford Bookworms Collection, volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.
