Sue Townsed
Sue Townsend was born in Leicester
in 1946. She was brought up in the suburbs, where she spent most of her free time
playing in woods.
Sue learned to read at the age of
eight when, she came off school with mumps, her mother gave to her a pile of
books of Just William and she learned to read in just three weeks. After that
moment she became obsessed with reading. Later, she started to write for the
school magazine.
Sue left the school when she was
fifteen years old, so she didn’t finish her studies, and found employment like
shop assistant. She kept writing, but did so in secret.
When Sue was eighteen she married,
and a year later her first child was born. She had two children more, but later
she divorced and she had had to take care of them.
His career as a writer began when she was 35 years old and starting from
there, has published many books, like “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole”, “The
queen and I” or “Number Ten”.
Afterwards she got married again. In 1999 the doctors discovered that
she had diabetes, and she lost her sight gradually. Nowadays Sue is blind.
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