Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946. Despite not learning to read until the age of eight, leaving school at fifteen with no qualifications and having three children by the time she was in her mid-twenties, she always found time to read widely. She also wrote secretly for twenty years. After joining a writers' group at The Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, she won a Thames Television award for her first play, Womberang, and became a professional playwright and novelist. After the publication of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 , Sue continued to make the nation laugh and prick its conscience. She wrote seven further volumes of Adrian's diaries and five other popular novels - including The Queen and I, Number Ten and The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year - and numerous well received plays. Sue passed away in 2014 at the age of sixty-eight. She remains widely regarded as Britain's favourite comic writer.
Biografie
Sue Townsend wurde in Leicester geboren, wo sie auch heute noch lebt. Nachdem sie mit 15 die Schule verließ, hielt sie sich mit verschiedenen Jobs über Wasser. Seit 1978 hat Sue Townsend zahlreiche Bühnenstücke geschrieben. Mit den Tagebüchern des unverbesserlichen Adrian Mole gelang Sue Twonsend der internationale Durchbruch. Sie ist seit Jahrzehnten eine der meistgelesenen Autorinnen Englands.
