OUGD406 - Studio Brief 01 - Study Task 01 - Sue Townsend

- Died aged 68 - stroke

- Comic writer, novelist, playwright, journalist

- Spot a joke a mile off

- Ability to entertain without compromising her integrity

- Not in the least self important (like Adrian Mole)

- Born in Leicester, eldest of 5

- Could not read until 8 years old

- Failed 11 plus school, left school at 15

- Chain smoking teenager

- Fired from clothes shop job for reading secretly in closet

- Writing in secret by 14 years old

- At 18 years old, married a sheet metal worker

- 4 children

- Previous jobs = petrol station, receptionist, Birds Eye foods

- Been poor previously - made pea soup for children from OXO cube and tin of garden peas

- Went on canoeing course through working at adventure playground

- Adrian used to 'Nigel'

- Health issues = TB peritonitis, heart attack, arthritis, diabetic, blind, kidney failure

- Used her poor health in her novels (Adrians cancer etc)

- Life long socialist

- Bought two pubs