Eleanor Updale

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Eleanor Updale
Born 1953
Citizenship British
Alma mater St. Anne's College, Oxford
Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London
Notable work(s) The Montmorency Series
Spouse(s) James Naughtie

Eleanor Updale (born 1953) is the author of the Montmorency Series and Johnny Swanson. She has written four novels and some short stories, and has won several awards for her writing.

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Eleanor Updale was born in 1953 and grew up in South London. She studied history at St. Anne's College, Oxford, England before becoming a producer of television and radio current affairs programmes for the BBC. She studied at the new Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and was awarded a Ph.D in 2007. She is also a trustee of the charity Listening Books. Montmorency was her first book. Then she wrote the Johny Swanson book recently.

She is married to broadcaster James Naughtie.

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