Wendy Holden (author, born 1965)

Wendy Holden
Born 12 June 1965 (1965-06-12) (age 53)
Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire
Occupation Novelist

Wendy Holden (born 12 June 1965[1]) is a best-selling British novelist.[2]

Holden was born and raised in Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire.[3] She read English at Girton College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University in the mid-1980s, and then moved to London where she found work in the magazine business, eventually working for The Diplomat monthly, where she became an editor, and from there, she moved on to The Sunday Times.[3] One of her responsibilities at the title was ghostwriting a column on behalf of socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, an experience which Holden says influenced her first novel, Simply Divine.[3]

Simply Divine was published in 1999, and Holden went on to write a series of novels, most of which were bestsellers, and which she happily describes as "chick lit" and "supermarket novels."[3]

Holden is married, has two children, and now lives in the Derbyshire Peak District.[3]

Publications

  • Simply Divine (1999)
  • Bad Heir Day
  • Pastures Nouveaux
  • Fame Fatale
  • Azur Like It
  • The Wives of Bath
  • The School for Husbands
  • Filthy Rich
  • Beautiful People
  • Gallery Girl
  • Marrying Up
  • Gifted and Talented
  • Wild and Free

References

  1. ↑ Holden, Wendy (2004). Azure Like It. Thorndike Press. pp. About the Author. ISBN 9780786263981.
  2. ↑ "Best-selling author Wendy Holden to talk at new festival in Cromford". Matlock Mercury. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Freeman, Sarah (12 April 2015). "Why Wendy Holden is content to be a supermarket novelist". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
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