Sue Townsend

Born:	April 2, 1946 (1946-04-02) (age 61) Leicester, England
Occupation:	Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Columnist
Genres:	Drama, Fiction, Screenplay
Debut works:	The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

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Biography

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole was reputedly based on her children's experiences at Mary Linwood Comprehensive School in Leicester. Several of the teachers who appear in the book (such as Mr. Dock and Miss Fossington-Gore) are based on actual staff who worked at the school in the early 1980s. When the book was televised, it was mostly filmed at a different school nearby. Mary Linwood Comprehensive was closed in 1997. Mary Linwood Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in the English city of Leicester. ... Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ...

Sue went to Glen Hills Primary school where the school secretary was named 'Mrs Claricotes' - as is the school secretary in the books. She then went to South Wigston High School.

Sue has four children: Sean, Daniel, Victoria and Elizabeth.

At the time of writing the first Mole book, Sue Townsend was living on the Saffron Lane Estate, a stone's-throw away from the house in which Joe Orton was brought up. Joe Orton Joe Orton (Born: John Kingsley Orton 1 January 1933, Leicester, England. ...

The first two books in the series appealed to many readers as a realistic and humorous treatment of the inner life of an adolescent boy. They also captured something of the zeitgeist of Britain during the Thatcher period. The city of Berlin is seen as a Zeitgeist Metropolis[1] Look up Zeitgeist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC (born October 13, 1925), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in office from 1979 to 1990. ...

For her work Sue has received two Honorary Doctorates, one form the University of Leicester and one from the University of Loughborough in July 2007. University of Leicester seen from Victoria Park - Left to right: the Department of Engineering, the Attenborough tower, the Charles Wilson building. ... Loughborough University is located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England. ...

Works

Novels:Adrian Mole Series

• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982), her best selling book, and the best-selling new British fiction book of the 1980s.
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984)
• The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (1989)
• Adrian Mole From Minor to Major (1991) is an omnibus of the first 3 Adrian Mole Books, and includes Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians.
• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993)
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999)
• Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004)

Novels:Other Works The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ is the first book in the Adrian Mole series. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Adolescence is difficult. ... True Confessions of Adrian Mole is the third book in the Adrian Mole series. ... Sue Townsend (born April 2, 1946) is the author of the Adrian Mole series of books. ... Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is the sixth and most recent Adrian Mole novel by Sue Townsend. ...

• Rebuilding Coventry (1988)
• Mr Bevan's Dream (1989)
• The Queen and I (1992) - a story about the British royal family living a normal life on an urban housing estate
• Ghost Children (1997)
• Number Ten (2002)
• Queen Camilla (2006)

Plays: The Queen and I is a 1992 novel/play written by Sue Townsend. ... Members of the Royal Family on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Colour ceremony The British Royal Family is a shared royal family. ... Ghost Children: A Tribute To The Smashing Pumpkins is a 2001 tribute album featuring 14 artists and bands from all four corners of the globe covering songs by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. ... Number Ten is a 2002 novel by Sue Townsend. ...

• Womberang (Soho Poly - 1979)
• The Ghost of Daniel Lambert (Leicester Haymarket Theatre - 1981)
• Dayroom (Croydon Warehouse Theatre - 1981)
• Captain Christmas and the Evil Adults (Phoenix Arts Theatre - 1982)
• Bazaar and Rummage (Royal Court Theatre - 1982)
• Groping for Words (Croydon Warehouse - 1983)
• The Great Celestial Cow (Royal Court Theatre and tour - 1984)
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4-The Play (Leicester Phoenix - 1984)
• Disneyland it Ain't (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs - 1989)
• Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes (Library Theatre, Manchester - 1989)
• The Queen and I (Vaudeville Theatre - 1994, toured Australia in the summer of 1996 and was entitled The Royals Down Under)

Non-fiction: The Queen and I is a 1992 novel/play written by Sue Townsend. ...

• Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman aged 55 3/4 (2001)

External links

• Penguin Site
• British Council Contemporary Writers Site