Louise Rennison
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Louise Rennison is an English author and comedian
She is the author of the best-selling books Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls. This series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging and It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers are being portrayed in a film adaptation called Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.
Her one-woman live show Stevie Wonder Felt my Face won awards in the 1980s[1]. Her other shows are Bob Marley's Gardener Sold My Friend and Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head.
She is a major contributor of comedy scripts[citation needed], and also works for BBC Radio 4.
Rennison lives in Brighton, which she describes as "The San Francisco of the South Coast" [2]. She was brought up in Yorkshire, in a three-bedroomed council house with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin[3]. When she was 15, her family moved to Wairakei, New Zealand[3]. She attended Brighton University.
[edit] The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson (in order)
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
- It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers (UK title)/ On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God (US title)
- Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
- Dancing in my Nuddy-Pants
- ...And that's when it fell off in my hand (UK title)/ Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (US title)
- ...Then He Ate my Boy Entrancers
- ...Startled by His Furry Shorts
- Let the Snog Fest Begin!: Georgia Nicolson's Guide to Life and Luuurve - released as part of World Book Day
- Luuurve is a Many Trousered Thing - (2007)
- Georgia Nicolson's Little Pink Book - (2008)
- Stop in the Name of Pants! (UK and US title) - (2008)
- Georgia's Summer Holiday Pack - (2008)
- Luuurve Gods A-Go-Go - (2008)
- Top Gossip - (2008)
- Georgia's Book of Wisdomosity - (2008)
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging gift set - (2008)
- Luuurve and Other Ramblings - (2009)
- Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me? - (2009)
Parts of the books are based on her own childhood in Leeds, and some of the characters are also based on real life [3].
Rennison is published by HarperCollins Publishers in both the UK and the US.
