Sid Kipper

Sid Kipper is the nom de plume of Chris Sugden, a Norfolk Humorist. Born in West Runton, 1952. Studied for PhD at University of East Anglia author of Prewd and Prejudice (1994) in which the heroine Miriam Prewd spends a traumatic year of ?Norfolk exile?. Written in his characteristic dead-pan style Prewd and Prejudice concerns itself with the Norfolk countryside, misconceptions about Norfolk and its self-depreciating folk. Kipper wrote of it -

The national papers seemed to think that it took the mickey out of country people, while the Norfolk people thought it ridiculed Londoners!

Kipper is the author of The Cromer-Sheringham Crab wars, the song, Like a Rhinetone Ploughboy and the compiler of an (as of yet) unpublished rhyming dictionary of Norfolk place-names for song-writing purposes. In 1996 he published The Ballad of Sid Kipper. The