Sue Townsend
March 16, 2009 11:33 am AuthorsSusan Lillian “Sue” Townsend was born on 2nd April 1946 she is a best selling British novelist, best known as the author of the Adrian Mole books.
Sue who was born in Leicester went to Glen Hills Primary school, where she got the idea for her Adrian Mole books, the school secretary was Mrs Claricotes, which is one of names she used as the secretary her the books. Her dad was a postman and she had three sisters of which she was the eldest. Sue went to the secondary modern South Wigston High School and left at the age of 15 , she then worked in a variety of jobs including shop and factory work. She later married a sheet-metal worker with whom she had three children under five by the time she was 22. She joined a writers’ group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester when she was in her thirties.
She has four children: Sean, Daniel, Victoria and Elizabeth.
Sues novels include;
• The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ (1982)
• The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984)
• The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole (1989)
• Adrian Mole From Minor to Major (1991) Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993)
• Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999)