Sue Townsend was born in
Leicester in 1946. She learned to read at the age
of eight in just three weeks, because she couldn’t go to the school for her mumps.
From that moment she became obsessed with reading. Later, she started to write
for the school magazine.
Sue left school at fifteen
with no qualifications and found employment. She kept writing, but she did it in
secret. At eighteen she married and a year later her first child was born. With
two more children in her family and a subsequent divorce, she found a job that she enjoyed it: work in a youth
club.
In 1978 Sue met Colin Broadway.
He helped Sue to continue writing. In 1979 she won a Thames Television
Playwright Award, including a bursary as Writer in Residence. She embarked on a
professional writing career.
In her works (novels, musicals...) she teases of the most ridiculous aspects of human behavior and social life.
Her most famous books are: ‘The
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ ’, ‘The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole’ (they’ve
adapted for radio, television and theatre), ‘The Queen and I’, ‘Number 10’ and ‘The
Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year’.
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